You know sometimes when you act, you work through some things as if you would in a therapy session. - Patty Duke

Whatever this thing is that takes over you, that says that you are worthless, that really the only answer is to kill yourself, is so much more powerful that that's... the calling you relate to.

I wrote the book not to have a catharsis, because I was under the impression that I already have had many catharses as one could have.

That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. But then, things often don’t turn out the way you plan.