“The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.” — 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 worse than death? To what do I owe my life? Was it love, affection, understanding, friends, wisdom? No no no. It was a man who looks like a poor copy of Walt Disney, drives pink Cadillacs,… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share
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 more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can’t make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share
