I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.