Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

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.

they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it

I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.