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.

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.

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