One man's faith is another man's delusion

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

The reason why people do not have price tags is, because life is priceless.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.