Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.