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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Well, I did know – but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn’t love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

There’s a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer’s head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it’s going to.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.