It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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 child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university. . . This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.