Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.