Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.