Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?''Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?

It kind of felt like she was kicking me in the gut, and every kick

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

Keep painting your demons.

The camera photographs what's there.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.