As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Talent is not sexually transmitted.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)