Elyn Saks Quotes

... a paranoid person with delusions.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

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

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

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

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

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

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

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

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

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

... the work of lunatics.

… the ravings of a maniac

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

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

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.

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.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.