If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you’ve got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.

This was it, his life of crime and recreation about to officially start.

Sometimes if you hold back on someone, they mistake your kindness for weakness. Sometimes you’ve got to go all out, to show people that you mean business.

Strength, confidence and invincibility had to exude from him at all times. Any vacuum in power could lead to injury, betrayal or death.

As long as you show that you’re willing to take it further than them, they’ll tend to back off, whoever they may be.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re not the fucking Partridge family or anything. We don’t all go on picnics and hold hands.

Self-loathing was on the agenda for the foreseeable future and he found it hard to imagine a way past it.

How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?

This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.