“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

“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 have a call.”

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?”

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”

“Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.”