I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

A thought is a hard thing to control.

What’s the worst that could happen?”“Don’t say that!” Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.“You two are so superstitious.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.