The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular..

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen..

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally..

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious ….

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not de….

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness..

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence..

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion..

To praise one thing is not to damn another..

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also..

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax..

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was mo….

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before th….

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last..

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer..

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that any….

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions..

And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your o….

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else".

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better..