I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine.

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.

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.