To praise one thing is not to damn another.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

"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"

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

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