Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

I am lost in the midst of love and joy.Who will show me the path to happiness?

Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.

The lifestyle you live is a function of what you have discovered

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.