This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.