The Center Cannot Hold My Journey Through Madness

"My brain was the instrument of my success and my pride, but it also carried all the tools for my destruction" p.245 "When you have cancer, people send flowers; when you lose your mind, they don't." p.312 "If you are a person with mental illness, the challenge is to find the life that's right for you. But in truth, isn't that the challenge for all of us? My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life" p.336