"I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jim Shaw

#Neurosis Quotes #Aspergers Quotes #Schizophrenia Quotes

“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.”
“Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.”
“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.”
“My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.”
“Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republicâ€™s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, â€˜All hail King Coriolanus!”

Source : Steven Saylor (2007). “Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.168, Macmillan
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.”
“Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?”

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