Speak Easy

It’s not hard to begin. It isn’t ever hard to start—not stories, not jobs, not flings. It’s the finishing that sticks in your jaw.

Parties are where you go to do nothing as hard as you can.

...telling jokes so raw they sounded like meat.

That’s what I do professionally. Wait around for something big.

Everybody’s writing a book in this joint. It’s the thing to do. Furrow your brow over pages and pull your best Keats-face, your best long-tooth Joyce-mug and the girlies just fall all over you. The lads, too. It’s a 100% kind of magic, works on everyone. Make me a character, won’t you? I was just born for the page. Make me art. Make me alive. Make me real ’cause you’re only real if somebody’s talking about you, and fiction’s the best kind of gossip there is.

...the world’s so damn big everything’s bound to happen that can happen, and probably some things that can’t.