“Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition...”

“From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prestwick the clouds were down like the black cap on a hanging judge.”

“[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet ...”

“The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.”

“For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expre...”

“Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in ...”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

“Dont try to fit me in a box My life is not one dimensional. Im the summer breeze and the hurricane Im the serene lake and the raging ocean Im the gentle poet and the rough warrior I can build and I...”

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)”

“Its true that laughter really is cheap medicine. Its a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.”

“Many a times, doctors, the worshipers of science, are helpless. They know a few technical things and perform their duty diligently. But they wait for nature to take its course as well.”

“There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.”