Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.
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.
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours. . . it hurts. . . it's going to fall off.
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.