I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.