"When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'"
Source : "The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time". Book edited by Daniel S. Burt, July 1998.