My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

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.

Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.

Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

I dont have time to be depressed.

I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet.