“In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.”
“Mental illness is real illness”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“Being fearless is bullshit. It isn't possible to live without fear, and it shouldn't be necessary in order for you to live a healthy, successful life. Fear is natural, useful, and it keeps us alive.”
Source: Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
“Schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder are often spoken of by laypeople – I used to do it myself – as if they were definitions as precise as those for hepatitis or appendicitis. In reality, the names are no more than those given to a collection of symptoms observable at a certain moment in time.”
Source: Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
“There is no right way to recover, but there is a wrong way, that is if you don’t try to recover at all.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“I burn my struggles and calm my mind”
“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.”
Source: Silences
“Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Jeet yet?”
Source: Everyday Is Like Sunday: A Memoir
“Mankind needs new law
to embrace new science.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut