The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.