Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.