The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the retur….

At least being nuts is being somewhere..

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a prom….

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular..

To praise one thing is not to damn another..

And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your o….

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that any….

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last..

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also..

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was mo….

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else".

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer..

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions..

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax..

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!.

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen..

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally..

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious ….

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not de….

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness..