The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

I’ve come to understand that each person has to work out their own personal algorithm of courage. No two are the same, and it’s no used trying to borrow or copy anyone else’s.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.

You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He's got a strong lead.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.