“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”

“Then what's happening right now? Because something is happening right now and it doesn't feel okay," he says, his voice catching.”

“I should not make any promises right now,But I know if youPraySomewhere in this world -Something good will happen.”

“But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.”

“It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.”

“Here it is, all at once: rightness. Not the graffiti itself, even though it's undeniably spectacular, but this feeling of making plans and carrying them them through, of meeting people and getting to know them, of being asked to do something and saying Yes, of wanting something, asking for it, making it happen.”