There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

Short guys with attitudes always just kind of made me laugh, like small, yippy dogs.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.

confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.