As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

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.

I didn't see her love, but I felt itthrough the sun, the wind, and the raindrops.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

Im so not into being emaciated.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.