“Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.”
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.”
“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”
“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded”
“Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness.”