I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

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.

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

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

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Repetition doesn't really exist

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.