“It was easier to scribble over memories a person didn't want to remember, so they searched for these people - the abused and neglected.”

“Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.”

“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.”

“Pain produces progress. So if you truly love me, you will try to hurt me as much as you can. If you really want me to grow as a person, you will water me with betrayal, abuse, neglect, derision, thievery, and possibly even torture.”

“When you are dead your memory may live on so you need to be sure of what you want people to remember and even if you are worth remembering”

“If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis) would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations.”