There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.