My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

A lot of people can be afraid of the masking because people can misrepresent themselves [in the Internet] and they can pose as people they're not. Well, yeah; that's true. That's one side of it. But the other side of it is that it equalizes you and if you happen to be a person who is not equal in the eyes of the greater society that's a damn good thing.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.