Now I was stuck and could feel the tide of years suddenly beginning to rise around me. - Jeffrey Ford

Halloween was close, our favorite holiday because it carried none of the pain-in-the-ass holiness of Christmas and still there was free candy.

Real memories intrude now and then as do self-admonitions for a wasted life, but the smoke’s other feature is that it lets you not give a shit about anything but taking in more smoke.

He’s no physician, he’s Grandfather Mess. He couldn’t cure a pain in the ass unless he left the room.