Walter Kerr Quotes

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

I'm not a nutcase. I know that.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.