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

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

“The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!”

“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

“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.”