The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.