
I gave a lot of good counsel at the Coyote Ugly Saloon. I certainly gave a lot of advice to men who’d fallen in love with their bartenders. It was a perennial problem. It was, after all, pretty much the whole point of the place.

Eustace Conway is not like any man you know. He’s got perfect vision, perfect balance, perfect reflexes and travels thorugh life with perfect equanimity. He is smart and fearless and believes he can do anything he sets his mind to - like saving America.

The way another woman might, on a first date, suddenly picture herself having a baby with the guy across the table, what I pictured was this: me and him, eating a duck’s liver together in a ditch.