Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fiber of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide.

A lot of mental illness is in the mind of the beholder.

A mental patient is so without rights, his situation is analogous to standing in the rain naked.

... for who is perfect and completely free of mental disturbance?

The real truth of the matter is that what we fear to look at in the mental patient, is ourselves.

There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

I have myself been gravely mad, and I can value with greater cause than most the advantages of being sane.

... the path I took led to adventures out of the realm of any sober scientist.

In normal life at times of strong emotion, and especially at moments of great fear, we find that we are more keenly aware than usual of the external details of our world ... In psychotic states, where the fate of the whole universe may be at stake, awareness of material objects and of trivial events can be heightened to an extent that is outside the range of sane experience.

Psychosis opens wide the doors to a world that most people know only through the undercurrent of their dreams.