Mark Vonnegut Quotes
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service
It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.
I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I’m asked is where I went to college.
