“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”

“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”

“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied”

“I love revisionsWe cant go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”

“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”