People take the feeling of full for granted.

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.

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.- Kristine

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

In the Atma all are one. Remember that Unity. Live in that Unity. Make that your goal. All are one... be alike to everyone.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.