I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

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.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.

Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

Big doors swing on little hinges.