Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.