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.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

"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"

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

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

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".