Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Friedrich Nietzsche said: “The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.”

bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.

Sometimes, just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness,” Aristotle said.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.