Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?

Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.