I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.