In the lowest of lows you can learn the highest of highs, and that often when you get to the point of wanting to die, it’s because you already have and are truly aching to live.

Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.

Some days I just want to climb inside my own skin and hide.

To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.