“A boy who was such a threat to my mental health and happiness should not be so tall.”

“Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.”

“Don’t do that to me. Losing you would not be good for my mental health, get it?”

“Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history”

“How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?”

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”