The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

"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"

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

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

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

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.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.