Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco..

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more d….

It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, y….

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could b….

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy..

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent..

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a….

It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the d….

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy..

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't..

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly..

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers sp….

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the….

Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of ….

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was ….

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone..

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is des….

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every w….

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you ….

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have..

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate enti….