“I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.”

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I think that they go hand in hand – notoriety and people lookin at ya. If they look at ya, either you look like a million dollars, or you don’t.

When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.

George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines.

God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!

The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.