My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.