Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy– then down the road we go.

It’s getting more difficult to be wise, ” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Break my face, my back, my arms, my neck. But please don't break my heart.

The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.