Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.