This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

The power to pray is the grace we need.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

I have only interest in things I could drink.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

Every man is of importance to himself.