Quote by Jon Ronson

“You were down to earth and funny - not at all what I imagined a psychiatrist would be. This office was so bright and…

— Chevy Stevens

“they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst”

— Ingmar Bergman

“How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt…

— John Harwood

“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder…

— André Breton

“And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.”

— Sara Baume

“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.”

— Rachel Caine

“...about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so…

— Carrie Fisher

“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with…

— Antonin Artaud

“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular…

— Jon Ronson

“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?”

— Darynda Jones