I couldn't bear to go out there and ... Be alive. When I had killed her.

She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell

Imitation of life. Mimesis. That's all I am. Plato said we were all shadows. Me more than most

There would be no compromise, no sweet-talking, no tears that could soften the hardest heart. It's not my heart that's hard, anyway. It's hers. Having no conce…

My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.

We were about to board the planes for the flight back to the United States. Jim Jones didn't want us to leave, at least not alive. A tractor trailer loaded wit…

'With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were do…