It’s over between me and the world. Things have not gone very well between us. Fare thee well, my dark star. People think I do drugs because I’m self destructive. But, if anything, I am averting suicide. I don’t much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction