MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

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.

The heart of a man is like deep water

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

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