John Forbes Nash, Jr.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.