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The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you’re hurt.
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I’m not bad at it. ‘Anyone’s crisis but mine’ is my motto.
I rarely think about my childhood. It’s a slippery thing I can’t keep hold of for long – it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
I Googled myself without lubricant. I don’t recommend it.
I don’t want to be a victim.
I do believe you’re only as sick as your secrets.
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
I’ll never be known for my work with boundaries.
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George.
Now I say I’m a diarist with an explanation I’ll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
My mother’s career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone’s buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.