Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, you miss the things that could go right.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.