I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.