The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Love is an impossible concept.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.