Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.

It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you.

Mental illness is not funny.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you a…