Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

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

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

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

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.