So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

A Warrior of the Light makes decisions. His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he is committed to his dream. On his freely chosen path, he often has to get up earlier than he would like, speak to people from whom he learns nothing, make certain sacrifices. His friends say: "You're not free." The Warrior is free. But he knows that an open oven bakes no bread.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

The Warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment and sometimes, with just a touch of madness

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us