a man who, in the process, had lost his only anchors to reality.
Key believed the world was full of crazy men who were kept tethered to reality by sane women […].
Having a support group of friends could maybe have rescued Phil Greene, but he’d chosen isolation, and in isolation, human minds tend to get strange, like a self-portrait painted from memory, in the dark, using a live snake as a brush.
— Key in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, Ch. Day 2, p. 160