There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

I have the backbone of an eel.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Life is but a collection of habits.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Plagiarism saves time.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.