It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.

Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.