You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have