“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
“If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.”
“I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?”
“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”
“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
“This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.”