You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.