
“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss”
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss”
"Scorpio Rising"
Song lyrics, The Wishing Chair (1985)
“The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”
Source: Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”
On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008) http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/10/art_spiegelman_on_breakdowns_r.html.
Baccalaureate address as President of Yale (12 June 1966)
“You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.”
Source: Assholes Finish First