Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.
I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.