No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.