My advice is: don’t save on the monitor - get a good one; go to work on a bicycle; do some kind of sport like running; don’t work every weekend; drink your coffee with sugar, then you don’t have to eat all those candy bars; get a cell phone. If you start becoming good in certain online games, you are playing too much. And don’t write business emails when you are drunk, do it the next morning! …Most important, don’t work alone. Don’t compromise if the client doesn’t pay accordingly. Have fun or look for something else to do.

Everybody who tells the truth is interesting.

Like pretty much everything that I wrote or drew (or said, or thought) between the ages of sixteen and twenty, this particular book had, in the intervening years, become the kind of thing that sent chills of embarrassment up my spine every time I was confronted with it.

It put two of my passions together: croissants and typography. Sex wasn’t involved, unfortunately.

Because she was depressed and because she was anxious she drank too much. This was called medicating herself. Alcohol has its well-known defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested—ask any doctor—that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.