“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“Sick is a relative concept. Were all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves sympt...”

“Smokings banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body, he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.”

“What do we mean by crazy? What do we mean by mad? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are...”

“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldnt possibly want this kind of life. But maybe thats not true. Maybe they dont want to live like other peop...”

“There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up, Harry recounted. He must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw sn...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”