There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

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.

Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

How is it possible for one to own the stars?""To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly."I don't know. To nobody.

L.A. bumper sticker: Keep honking - I'm reloading.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.