all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

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

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.

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

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.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?