I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.