suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

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

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.