- “We now assume that people who hear voices do terrible things; murderers and psychopaths hear voices, and so do religious fanatics and suicide bombers. But in the past, voices were respectable – desired. The visionary and the prophet, the shaman and the wise-woman. And the poet, obviously. Hearing voices can be a good thing”.
- “Ronnie Laing, the doctor and psychotherapist who became treandy 1960’s 70’s guru making madness fashionable, understood madness as a process that might lead somewhere”.
- “Wasn’t the creative spirit unbounded? No. Creativity is one side of health- it isn’t the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness”.
Why be happy when you could be normal? Jeanette Winterson.
pages 170-171.