Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
My only hope was to be polite.
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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