A volte, quando avete capito che il vostro treno non si sta veramente muovendo, potete passare un altro mezzo minuto sospesi tra due regni della coscienza: quello che sa che non vi state muovendo e qu...
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
You can see why doubting one’s own craziness isconsidered a good sign: It’s a sort of flailing response bythe second interpreter. What’s happening? the secondinterpreter is saying. He tells me it’s a...
I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
Their love story unfolded and then folded up again in Cambridge, as I watched and took mental notes and learned nothing, naturally, because the heart is unteachable.
Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle th...
Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was th...
Girl, interrupted.
Sa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.[…] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their...
The disorder is more common in women. Note the construction of that sentence. They did not write, The disorder is more common in women. It would still be suspect, but they didn't bother trying to cove...
I can't come up with reassuring answers to the terrible questions they raise. Don't ask me those questions! Don't ask me what life means or how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelati...
Era um dia de primavera desses que trazem esperança: cheio de brisas suaves e delicados aromas de terra aquecida.
Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner l...
Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and comm...
Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a chil...
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blin...
Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber bec...
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