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

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

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.

"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"

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

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

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.