“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

“The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.”

“I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhu...”

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”

“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.”

“PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”