“show me a person who says their family is normal, and i'll show you an orphan!”

“Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.”

“You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.”

“Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.”

“That is very good. People always want to be in a hurry. They want to control everything around them. Even the weather. They say, "What is the weather today?" The only thing they don't control is themselves, when that is the one thing they can control.”

“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.”

“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”