Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.