I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.