The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Hatred is settled anger.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Love is a serious mental disease.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I don’t have many sad days.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.