This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.