Never sleep with a woman who's troubles are worse than your own

"Innocence is an achieved thing. You can't be unworldly without first being worldy... to be innocent in the best sense is to have a kind of unworldliness that comes out of worldliness, to be able to see how people waste their whole lives just to have security" Nelson Algren

I was recently lent the book 'Walk on the Wildside" by Nelson Algren. The person who lent it to me, handed it over saying that I would enjoy it, as I too was a 'Gallant drunk'... although I might have just misheard the word 'Gallon.'