I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

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

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.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves