Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me. - Michael Chabon

Are you mocking the concept?"
"Not necessary," Berko says. "The concept mocks itself.

Although it was only nine o'clock he had already gone once around the pharmacological wheel to which he'd strapped himself for the evening, stolen a tuba, and offended a transvestite; and now his companions were beginning, with delight and aplomb, to barf. It was definitely a Crabtree kind of night.

A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while.