I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.

While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.

You're never happy with a tie you're trying to win. The reality is we have to come back and play tomorrow, and whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we have to come back and play again.