The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.