Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

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

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.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

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.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.