...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting..

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest gui….

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to contro….

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I ha….

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water..

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover..

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get ….

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same thin….

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when..

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential….

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it..

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply….

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self wh….

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity..

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me..

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal..

I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my….

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour..

I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about i….

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you..

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just c….