I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
We would give anything for what we have.
Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church constantaly pronounces these words aloud so that we may hear them during Holy Services of the Church, and be constantly renewed. For we are inclined to forget the only thing we need. With death all will be taken from us, all earthly goods, riches, beauty of body and raiment, spacious dwellings, etc. , but the virtue of the soul, that incorruptible raiment, shall remain with us eternally.
Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that. ' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.