Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I’d deserved God’s grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be

The «way», who will pass it on straight and well?

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?