“...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.”

“Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...”

“When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.”

“Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”

“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”

“Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since”