Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.