And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.