Scars are stories, history written on the body

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive!

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.