"I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to…"

"Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into…"

"Is this the type of friend or lover I want to have? I ask myself every time I meet someone new. Charming but shallow;…"

"In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our libert…"

"People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.…"

"I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with …"

"Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It t…"

"It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process …"

"It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather."

"Most of us saw our therapists every day. Cynthia didn’t; she had therapy twice a week and shock therapy once a week. …"