Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

Wild men are so enormously attractive.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it.