“He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats.”
“He merely sought a framework, like a coat hanger on which he could hang his life. At least then it might look like a life which was ready to be inhabited rather than a crumpled garment on the floor.”
“I tossed it on a pile with the coat, my stiff-with-cold jeans and the expensive scrap of silk that had been wedged up my ass for the past half hour.”
“Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.”
“And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.”
“Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.”