What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life? You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks. Take four unrelated people and make a family.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.