"Oh no, you won't. You won't take a little time at all. You're gonna be a big job to fix up."
- Dr. Levenkron on Karen Carpenter's condition

".... and that is what Richard needed.... someone to do what he wanted them to..."
- exerpt from Karen Carpenter's biography

"All my strength is not back yet, and that alone gets me upset."
- Karen Carpenter speaking of herself

"She wanted a wedding and a family and a white picket fence.... She was searching for something, and she never found it."
- Karen Carpenter's manager Jerry Weintraub on Karen Carpenter

"They're fictional creatures, Mulder. Folktales born out of some collective fear of the unknown."
- Dana Scully of "The X-Files"

"We're not sure what happened. But there is a medical explanation for his condition."
- Dana Scully of "The X-Files"

"She says, 'It's only in my head.'
She says, 'Shhh.... I know--- it's only in my head...'
Then she looks up at the building
and says she's thinking of jumping.
She says she's tired of life;
She must be tired of something."
- Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

"Open up your eyes
You can see the flames
of a wasted life
You should be ashamed"
- Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

"So she takes her pills----
careful and round
One of these days
She'll throw the whole bottle down"
- Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

"I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily. If I get through this year, kicking my demon down when it comes up, realizing I'll be tired after a day's work.... and it's natural tiredness, not something to be ranted about in horror, I'll be able, piece by piece, to face the field of life, instead of running from it the minute it hurts."
- Sylvia Plath from her collected journals

"Does failure whet my blade?..."
- Sylvia Plath from her collected journals

"... She is crying
As if the most impossible of all
Horrible things had happened---
Had already happened, was going on
Still happening, with the whole world
Too late to help...."
- Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath,
"Fever" in Birthday Letters

"To rush into the secret house of death,
Ere death dare come to us?"
- William Shakespeare

"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've a call."
- Sylvia Plath

"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."
- Marilyn Manson