Adryon Powell

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
― R.D. Laing

“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).”
― Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog