Pete Earley Quotes:

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Topics: Ignorance, Thinking, People, Oh Well

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

source: - Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.253, Penguin

Topics: Running, Talking, Voice

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

source: - "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Giving Up, School, Character, Bipolar Disorder, Attending

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

source: - "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Real, Jail, Sick

There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.

source: - Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin

Topics: People, Luck, Groups, Mentally Ill, Dwellers

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.

Topics: Strong, Thinking, Rights, Cards On The Table

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

source: - "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

Topics: Years, Skins, Nine, Thick Skin