I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.