Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?”

“Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

The fact is they built a case on the backs of psychotics. Altogether they committed about 30 murders, these guys, and some of them are walking among us. The jury rejected that approach.

The question is whether we should rush to treat early episodes with anti-psychotics, often before a clear diagnosis has become evident.