I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.