“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.”
“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”
“Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.”
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”
“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill. ”