I've never let the criticism deter me.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.