We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

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

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.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.

Where did you think playing with angels was going to get you?

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.