My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.

All my life I have dreamed of you.

bees dig the plum blossoms

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.