“Sometimes people who are mentally challenged and have a history of sexual abuse...mutilate their own sexual organs.”— Tom Six, Dr. Sebring, Bill Hutchens, imdb.com
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time, taken that fateful step off the precipice, then almost any reason was a good enough reason, almost any provocation was provocation enough. Cutting was my all-…”— Caroline Kettlewell, amazon.com