What made me empathic was my depressions.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Create your own god in your mind whom you can love, trust, and follow.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I certainly want a name that I can pronounce!

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?