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“Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.”
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
“Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
“I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.”
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
“Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?”
“There is no such thing as too insane unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”
“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justif...”
“Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical.”
“There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. Th...”
“Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity,...”
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone ...”
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”
