The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.