The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

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

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.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!