Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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.

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.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

I wanted to explore more of us and lose myself, I wanted it to be you and no one else" AP

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

Happy man, happy dole.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.