I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

All I do is go to the movies.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.