Mark Vonnegut

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping…

— Mark Vonnegut

“If you take good care of any disease by eating well, sleeping well, being aware of your health, consciously wanting to be…

— Mark Vonnegut

“None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick. At my best I have islands of being sick.…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness…

— Mark Vonnegut

“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I was back to being polite, the well-tempered paranoid. I didn't have much of a choice. If I wasn't polite, they could…

— Mark Vonnegut

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Rarely are there big heroic choices that will settle matters once and for all. The smallest positive step is probably the right…

— Mark Vonnegut

“The first meeting I really remember with the good doctor was when I was starting to be able to speak English again…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they…

— Mark Vonnegut

“The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.”

— Mark Vonnegut

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

— Mark Vonnegut

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of…

— Mark Vonnegut

“The Doc. Virginia and Simon had told me that Dr. Dale was my doctor. I have a fuzzy recollection of walking up…

— Mark Vonnegut

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the…

— Mark Vonnegut

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

— Mark Vonnegut

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie.”

— Mark Vonnegut

“The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.”

— Mark Vonnegut

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

— Mark Vonnegut

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”

— Mark Vonnegut

My only hope was to be polite.

— Mark Vonnegut

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

“It was not easy to go from being one of the seven righteous pillars holding up the whole planet and human race…

— Mark Vonnegut

“If you believe that the dollars made by the pharmaceutical industry are plowed back into research that leads to better and better…

— Mark Vonnegut