Frank Quote by William S. Burroughs

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

— Pol Pot

“What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially unhappy love.”

— Alice W. Flaherty

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We…

— Peter Greenaway

I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world…

— Camille Paglia

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

— Naomi Wolf

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

— Richard Holbrooke

“Too many of the mentally ill in our country live under conditions of atrocity. Storytelling”

— Ron Powers

“There is a fixed social ideology about illnesses that are transmitted through sexual activity; there is an assumption that they are indicators of wanton…

— Kyra Cornelius Kramer

“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do…

— Jonathan Swift

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

— Holly Hunter

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

— William Shakespeare