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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.