It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.

Not everyone can invest their heart into learning something and making it fully realized, and the chances are 9 out of 10 that it's gonna get thrown away.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.