Richard K. Morgan Quotes

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

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

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For those of you just joining us, Fang doesn't giggle. Especially hysterically. So for a second, this seemed like one of the weirder dreams of recent days.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

My mother is schizophrenic. I would love to be brave enough to learn more about it. I try to understand her, I try to be positive about it. She can be so absent and tired by her medication; sometimes she's so lucid, funny, and smart.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.