He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Once upon a time is now.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.