Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

Sometimes hell has no words.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.