Anthony Storr

“Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.”

“Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.”

“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”

“The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.”

“I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.”

“I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.”