My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Beyond a certain point, gathering further evidence of the hurtfulness and shortcomings of one’s family, employer, et cetera is like eating the same poisonous… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I often took him as one of God's little jokes on me. When I was in desperate trouble, what saved me from a fate… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If nothing I say sparks any thoughts or identification, it’s possible you’re taking too much medication. If it’s the greatest talk you’ve ever heard,… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to pick out the people who go crazy from time to time in my family, find the ones in the photos… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
