“Imagination is a great thing for those who know how to use it, and very few can or everyone could do it”

“Logan couldn’t remember when a few drinks became a bottle and then two bottles every night. He couldn’t point to one single moment or event as the cause. From his first drink at fourteen, alcohol began soaking into his skin, the moisture rotting him on the inside. Every few years he’d use a chisel to hack away all the wet, unsound wood without trying to find the source of the moisture. The rot always came back, stronger than before.”

“I know nobody ever got over being afraid of the dark by never turning off the lights.”

“The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.”

“In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left....”

“Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...”

“His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was justa man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But hisdiscourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it went away neitherdisgusted by servility, nor repelled by ill-tempered censure, but onthe contrary lifted out of themselves by charity, and encouraged tomore orderly, contented, hopeful lives.”