Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.