It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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