I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.Moreover, it speaks of everything.

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning”.

Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry.

God is in the details.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.