Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
“The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.”
“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”