The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.