I have stitched life into me like a rare organ - Sylvia Plath

"The truth comes to me. The truth loves me."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."