I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

Not all who drink energy drinks are douches, but all douches drink energy drinks.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

There are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

In terms of what we share from our lives, I tend to share everything. My instinct would be to share everything.

I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.

Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.

Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.

Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

My husband is the only guy I've ever dated where I've never been drunk around him. I couldn't handle dating without drinking in the past.

White clouds, blue sky.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.