My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

Life is tough, then you die.

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.