“Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth.”

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”

“Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”