“When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.”
“I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.”
“They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.”
“For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink.”
“Your life needs an airbag. I swear, Anastagio, you should have come equipped when you were born.”
“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”