Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.