"Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking." — Sam Knight, The New Yorker
"Hilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way." — Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), “Humour Book of the Year”
“It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page.” — Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly
"Blisteringly funny." — Boston Globe
"So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription." — The Guardian
"Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing." — Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
"Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable." — Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos
"Bloody funny." — Minnie Driver