“Even as a child the glimpse of what a normal life would have been was always beyond my vision and my grasp. No matter what I glimpsed - whether hope or warning, happiness or sadness - it all led to...”

“Im not interested in Bob Marley telling me to lively up myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznors voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings,...”

“Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of cookie-cutt...”

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.”

“sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

“One person's crazyness is another person's reality”