I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.