I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone

My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.

I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!

I was trying to work out who I was.

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

I never liked making albums.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.