Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.