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.

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

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.