suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.