And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.