Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there…

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively…

— Elyn Saks

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be…

— Elyn Saks

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the…

— Elyn Saks

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk…

— Bob Newhart

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder…

— Bob Newhart

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.”

— Masatoshi Shibayama

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

— Mira Bartok

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of…

— Elyn Saks

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

— Elyn Saks

“You can exorcise the demons of schizophrenics who perceive that there’s something foreign inside them. But it’s much harder with depressed people because we…

— Andrew Solomon

“her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with…

— Connie Willis

All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

— LL Cool J

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed…

— Andrew Solomon