End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Necessity is a mother.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Things dribbled in in dribs and drabs through my 20s. But it was a struggle.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.