"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.

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

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.

"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"

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?