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

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

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

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.

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

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

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