A person who doesn’t talk to herself or stare off into nothingness is therefore more alarming than a person who does.
Іннаhas quoted2 years ago
Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Briahas quoted2 years ago
you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber because you are worried that your face is a blob of rubber.
Briahas quoted2 years ago
Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Briahas quoted2 years ago
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
Briahas quoted2 years ago
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?
Briahas quoted2 years ago
An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Shiri Goldschmidthas quoted6 months ago
it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well.
Shiri Goldschmidthas quoted6 months ago
Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
Shiri Goldschmidthas quoted6 months ago
Why did she do it? Nobody knew. Nobody dared to ask.