What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won’t make you cry.
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do.
No one survives life.
There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
They will love me for that which destroys me.
Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.
She’s talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It’s a hoot.
Death is my lover and he wants to move in.
You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.
Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after.
Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.