“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.” WorldMeanStillsNaturalChanceSanityNatural World Book:The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West Source: The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
“New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.” MindHas BeensStillsStatesHomeWonderNew YorkSanityScarResurrection Author:Muriel Spark
“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.” WritingDoeStillsI CanMadnessMereFinalsSanityTerrificLava Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931 Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931