“The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.”
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
“Roland Barthes says, “That which cannot be named is a disturbance.”
“The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.”
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
“After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.”