“If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos”

“Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.”

“We did not say: Don't drive. You're drunk.”

“Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”

“So of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him- inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”

“Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...”

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”