The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

Maman’s life was an unfinished book. Celeste had to discover the ending, and then she could close the cover for ever.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.