“Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.”
“...they'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown--not even he was that dreadful a novelist.”
“Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phone call from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.”
“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
“I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.”
“All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.”