Bill Maher Quotes

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

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

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

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

... madness entered my veins.

... the work of lunatics.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

See what? I didn’t see anything. There were no scary people there. Nothing freaky. I’m going home now and tomorrow I’m going to have the doctors check for a brain tumor. Full battery of tests. Whole nine yard. Whatever’s wrong with me, we’ll find it and deal with it. At this point, my vote is either tumor or space alien testing. Either one works for me. (Geary)

You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.