The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.