I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myse….

A thought is a hard thing to control..

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

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy..

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

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every w….

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't..

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….

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you ….

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a….

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

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is des….

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

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more d….

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco..

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate enti….

It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the d….

It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, y….

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was ….

Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of ….

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly..