“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”
“I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.”
“Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!”
“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.”
“I'm more than the flesh and bone that defines me. More than the pain that consumes me and the madness radiating through me. I am a man. And I am still alive...”