The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

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 tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.