{"author":"Michael Thomas Ford","author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;One burnt her daddy up and then there were six.Six little crazy kids playing with a hive;One tattooed himself to death and then there were five.Five little crazy kids on a cellar door;One went all schizo and then there were four.Four little crazy kids going out to sea;One wouldn't say a word and then there were three.Three little crazy kids walking to the zoo;One jerked himself too much and then there were two.Two little crazy kids sitting in the sun;One a took a bunch of pills and then there was one.One little crazy kid left all alone;He went and slit his wrists, and then there were none.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["burn","crazy","drown","jerking","kids","notes","pills","schizo","silence","slitting","suicide","suicide-notes","tattoo"],"id":52408,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["change","dealing-with-people","experience","life","mental-hospital","outcast","place","stranger","world"],"id":91333,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"I didn't realize there was a ranking.' I said. 'Sadie frowned. 'What do you mean?' 'A ranking,' I said. 'You know, what's crazier than what.' 'Oh, sure there is,' Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. 'First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stuff: the arsonists, the schizophrenics, the manic-depressives. You can never quite tell what those will do. And then you've got the junkies. They're completely tragic, because chances are they're just going to go right back on the stuff when they're out of here.' 'So junkies are at the top of the crazy chain,' I said. Sadie shook her head. 'Uh-uh,' she said. 'Suicides are.' I looked at her. 'Why?' 'Anyone can be crazy,' she answered. 'That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["anorexia","arsonist","arsonists","bulimia","crazy","depressed","depressives","drug","druggie","drugs","funny","humor","junkie","junkies","manic-depression","schizophrenia","schizophrenics","suicide"],"id":104081,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work.What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["awful","comparison","depression","feel","feeling","happiness","human","life","people","perfect-life","reflection","relationship","sadness","suck"],"id":116162,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["god","religion"],"id":128038,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"Boney the snowman, was a crazy, whacked-out guy, with tattooed skin and a goofy grin, and he liked to get real high. There must have been some acid in the soda that he had, 'cause when he went and drank it, it screwed him up real bad. He led them to the psycho ward, right to the dear old doc. And when they asked him what was wrong he told them 'suck my cock.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["drugs","frosty-the-snowman","psycho-ward"],"id":137881,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["sports"],"id":148112,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"I swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["bad-luck","complaining","complicated","life","thoughts","upset"],"id":161529,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["animal-kindness","animals","animals-love","bears","curiosity","drinking","drinking-alcohol","drug-addiction","drugs","feeling-bad","freedom","letting-down","lonliness","misanthropy","people","people-suck","personality","questions","stupid-people","stupidity","suicidal","suicidal-thoughts","suicide-notes"],"id":244660,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["crazy","suicide"],"id":270566,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}