The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

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