Sam Levenson Quotes

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

That's why I'm so crazy because my mom is crazy.

My mother was crazy.

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

No family is sane, is it?

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I've been insane from a very early age.

I am not a madman or a nut.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.