They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
“Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.”
“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.”