Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

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

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.