We wear our problems differently.
Rudy is a mutt; my father says he’s a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must’ve been some wild dog sex.
Once the music starts he goes right into the Jimmy-verse, banging against his washboard and letting it all hang out in a piercing falsetto that’s surprisingly on key. The thing is, he doesn’t sing I S...
I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn’t answer. I intended to kill it.
I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted
Good. Because right now I don’t have you pegged as a yuppie. You’re something else. I’m not sure what you are, but I’m going to find out. Cool.
Do you even know who the enemy is?I think... it's me.
But it suddenly makes sense: I’d like to be under the sea, as an octopus.
And when you say the truth you get stronger.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construc...
Never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.
This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying. The party line is that some of the most...
Then I get up and turn on the light. (Did anyone notice I was in here in the dark? Did they see the lack of light under the crack and notice it like a roach? Did Nia see?) Then I look in the mirror. I...
So you're just going to give up?That's the plan.
So when I ran out of the final bottle of Zoloft, I didn’t take any more. I didn’t call Dr. Barney either. I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I’ll remember how good I...
One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.
Just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think I'm not going to be able to do that and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up. And the...
I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.