“Deborah’ın, insan maddesi taşısa bile, kendisiyle insan ırkının öteki üyeleri arasındaki mesafenin ne denli büyük geldiğini bu insanlara anlatması olanaksızdı.”

“...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.”

“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”

“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”

“Oturma odasında kan görmekten herkes korkar, ‘Acı çeken birini görmeye dayanamıyorum,’ derler, ‘Onun için git, dışarıda öl!”

“Bir şeyi övmek, bir başka şeyi kötülemek anlamına gelmez.”