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

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

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

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

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