... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

There is no better therapy than understanding.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.