You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.