The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.