Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel

by Paul Neilan

That’s the beauty of honesty. Everyone’s so unused to hearing it they just assume you’re kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering

I’d have to throw out these clothes and run home naked, take a scalding hot shower and scrub my skin until it bled, call my mother and tell her to fuck off, then start a heroin addiction.

There comes a time in every man’s life when he wakes up drunk on the toilet and begins to doubt the choices he has made.