Between the Bookends

“I want to look at one of the books, but I’m scared to. I’m scared to do anything. I feel like I’m floating in the dusty yellow air of the l...

“After that, McMurphy had things his way for a good long while. The nurse was biding her time till another idea came to her that would put h...

“’Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the m...

“All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else ...

“He’d be close to a month in this nuthouse and it might be a lot better than a work farm, what with good beds and orange juice for breakfast...

“She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity...

“’You’re committed you realize. You are…under the jurisdiction of me...the staff.’ She’s holding up a fist. All those red-orange fingernails...

“If somebody’d of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their head...

“Nobody complains about all the fog… as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That’s what McMurphy can’t understand, us wanti...

“Nobody complains about all the fog… as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That’s what McMurphy can’t understand, us wanti...