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

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

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.

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?

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

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.

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