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

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

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.

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

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

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.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.