“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.”
“Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
“If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.”