I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing