I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.

There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.