Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I'll die a crazy old man!

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.