"i want out of the labels. i dont want my whole life crammed into a single word. a story. i want to find something else, unknowable, some place thats not on the map. a real adventure."

"You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night"..."When you understand...that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan...then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

"Anymore, when i see the picture of a young twenty-something in the newspaper who was abducted and sodomized and robbed and then killed and here's a front page picture of her young and smiling, instead of me dwelling on this being a big sad crime, my gut reaction is, wow, shed be really hot if she didnt have such a big honker of a nose. My second reaction is Id better have some good head and shoulder shots handy just in case i get, you know, abducted and sodomized to death. My third reaction well at least that cuts down on the competition."

"Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. Who I was before is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What i need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself."

"Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. "

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

"That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire."

"What it boils down to is professional modeling means getting paid to overreact to stuff like rice cakes and new shoes."

"When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity."

"All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?"