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 second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.

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

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

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.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

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.