Marlin Fitzwater Quotes

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

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

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

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

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

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

... the work of lunatics.

… the ravings of a maniac

Paranoia is dangerous for individuals and for nations as it gives rise to irrational behavior.

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

He's a caveman ... Mr. Eisenhower told me he wasn't a dependable man. Mr. Kennedy told me he was not a dependable man … He's got a serious mental problem. I just don't trust him on anything.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

I'm not crazy and we're not alone. I told them, but the only two people who ever believed me were the schizophrenic abducted by aliens and his invisible friend. I told them!

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.