Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.