“My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my pur...”

“The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.”

“Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to be strong. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.”

“Speak your heart. If they dont understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.”

“The mind replays what the heart can't delete.”

“Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”

“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

“All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I...”