Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.