This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

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?

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

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

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.