The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people