I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek.

People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.