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

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

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.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.