“She was a southern girl, which is the same as saying she was insane.”

“(Her husband’s departure …) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From “Butterfly on F street”

“You can’t compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person’s upbringing and diagnosis.”

“How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?”

“Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.”

“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”

“Love is a kind of insanity.”

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

“Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.”

“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!”