... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.

the person in this picture is really me.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.