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.

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.

"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.

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

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