Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

You're the one who has to live with your choice, " she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.