“Then why don’t you make a world of your own?”
“Tired of friends. The thing is to have sycophants.”
“Why doesn’t he go and speak to them? Don’t you think they’re attractive?”
“I think they’re very attractive,” Abe agreed. “I just don’t think they’re attractive, that’s all.”
Trouble is when you’re sober you don’t want to see anybody, and when you’re tight nobody wants to see you.