Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

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

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.