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

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

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

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.

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion