Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis. - Waiter Rant
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
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house - William H. Gass
Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction. - Christian Baloga
Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity. - Brian Spellman
I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long. - Patricia Highsmith