The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

friendship is love made bearable.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.