Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

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.

I love the ocean because water from all sources mingle here, I love the ocean because it always returns all our valuables back, I love the ocean because it is the proof for abundance love & attachment.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.