Quotes About Nuthouse

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one's memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

People think live is, you know, this spiritual thing, the lama said. This 'feeling'. But that's not my thing. In my book, love is physical act. Love is not ethereal. Love is sticking by someone when they're in the nuthouse. Love is when you keep calling someone when they don't call you back. Love is dirty and solid. Love is, you know, earth and shit and blood and hair.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one's memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

It's lonely at midnight in the nuthouse.

Today, they would have put me on Ritalin or put me in a nuthouse. They'd call my lack of attention a disease. It wasn't. It was called boredom!