You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

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.

at first sight everyone seems like human.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.