Mark Lyons’s Reviews > A Drink Before the War > Status Update

“Lesbians hate men, men hate women, blacks hate whites, whites hate blacks, and … everyone is looking for someone to blame.”

Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they’re also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.