Creativity is the opposite of TV

I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

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.

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

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.