I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.