"Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. That was my motto." p. 12

"And I can't believe, looking at myself in the mirror, seeing what to all eyes must appear to be a young and healthy twenty-five-year-old with flushed skin and visible biceps — I can't believe anyone in his right mind would deny that these are just too damn many pills." p. 19

"And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too." p. 22

"For years, my...