“The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.”

“When I talk to the National Alliance onMental Illness (NAMI) and other patientsupport groups, I take questions at theend. At one talk I was asked, “What’sthe difference between yourself andsomeone without mental illness?”At another talk I was asked, “How doyou make the voices be not so mean?”I wish I knew.”

“Catherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.”

“Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.”

“Boy, you really break things down, don't you?'Some say it is an illness.'We should all be so ill.”

“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”