Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)