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

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

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.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

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.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

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