I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.