Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhil…

- Frederick Exley

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

- Frederick Exley

I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and w…

- Frederick Exley