Caleb Billings

“The candor was infectious. It spread back to the beginning of your life. You tried to tell her, as well as you could, what it was like being you. You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City