Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.