I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

When you want to give up remember why you started.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.