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.

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

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

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.