Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.