Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

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

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

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.