An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.