#psychotic

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Razor appeared on his shoulder with a buzzing laugh. "Stupid goblins," he crowed, bouncing up and down, making Kierran sigh. "Funny, stupid goblins think master is funny elf. Ha!" He buzzed once more and sat down, grinning like a psychotic piranha. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#kierran #psychotic-piranha #razor #funny

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#alone #baby #bum #criminal #cute

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed. ↗

— Alan Alda

#child #feel #had #i #kill

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#clarity #comes #jealousy #psychotic

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#being #between #bit #difference #differentiation

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#america #considered #dwell #heads #keep

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#confuse #illusion #only #psychotics #reality

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting. ↗

— Megan Fox

#i #i think #if i could #ill #interesting