Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

... one does not recover from mental illness all at once.

Insanity-a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Schizophrenic behavior is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Through the hurt we still love.

Some people had to live with crippled arms, or stammers, or being deaf. She would have to live knowing she was subject to a state of mind she could not own.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.