“The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.”

“...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.”

“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”

“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”