You Like It Darker

That’s weird. He’s like a case history in a book called Serial Killers as Children.”

“I did leave, but I cut that bitch’s throat before I did. I didn’t stop drinking, but it made me feel better. The way beating up Glenn Ferguson made me feel better.

decided what I really needed was a change of location. In AA that’s called a geographic cure. Never works, but I didn’t know that.

The sky was the limit

I’m sure you have stuff to feel guilty about without having to invent a bunch of might-have-beens.”

I was having a bad day and thought I’d feel better if I got into a fight with this kid I didn’t like. I don’t know why I didn’t like him, I guess there was a reason, but I don’t remember what it was. Only that set a pattern of lying

Before rising every morning, he reminded himself to enjoy the day

It’s all right to want what you can’t have. You learn to live with it.

I tell myself that, and mostly I believe it

You can’t see me, but I’m blushing as I write this

I daydream about writing that great novel, but it’s not the most powerful daydream I have