I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

And when you say the truth you get stronger.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?