Quotes on Asylums

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.