“You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.”
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty”
“Even though the Voices were far more intense in the hospital than before, in some ways they were less frightening. When I was in high school and college, they had sneaked up on me, blasting out of the airwaves almost without warning. By now, they had become almost familiar. I hated them. I suffered from them. But they seemed almost a normal part of living. I knew them. I understood them and they understood me.”
“I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.”
“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”