To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.

Manna today or I starve.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.