“Alcoholism is the one illness that tells you, you don't have it”

“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”

“I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”

“You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.”

“Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”

“The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike”