Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

All love craves unity.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I like anything sweet.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating