Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

But I'm more scared of not writing.