“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”
“I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.”
“Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“Do deaf schizophrenics hear voices in sign language?”
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”