I’ve come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I’ll crash. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don’t know his work pick up a book and experience this writer’s zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life’s unvarying diurnal rhythm. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
It’s thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there’s a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
