Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts..

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in an….

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are..

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks..

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on….

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I….

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick..

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and ….

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help ….

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all..

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right..

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is..

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood..

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo….

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you..

Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are ….

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly d….

And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your….

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too import….

I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowle….