Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.