It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.