Creativity is the opposite of TV
In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.
All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.
You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.
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.