Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.

“In childhood, it’s our parents who give us our standards for experience: “Here’…”

“I looked at the sofa. I wanted to lie down on it and close my eyes. I wanted hi…”

“I’d set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in t…”

“Writing a book is exactly like love. You don’t hold back. You give it everythin…”