In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.

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