Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.