Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

All men die. Only a few ever live.

I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.

Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.