Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Loving someone who does not love you back is like, reaching for a star. You know you will never reach it but you just have to keep on trying. Because someday, who knows? It might fall.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.