If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.

When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly

You can’t argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

Oh, and I certainly don’t suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love...

I rehearsed Foucault’s argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I’d have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I don’t know what I’m doing in Santa Teresa,” Amalfitano said to himself after he’d been living in the city for a week.”Don’t you? Don’t you really?” he asked himself.”Really I don’t,” he said to...

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart could be so foolish to the extent of their own intellect and how...

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

… insanity is never reasonable.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at...

Not even close.

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.

And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do...

You’re not crazy. I love you.

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It’s the only way to stay sane in insanity.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there...

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder...

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith–contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition–the desire to succeed–to have power–leads to most ills...

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

I took a few dragging steps toward the locker-room door. ‘You’re doing something to me that I wouldn’t do to a dog,’ I mumbled. ‘What you’re doing to me is worse than if you were...

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will...

Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more...

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: “C-Students from Yale.”George W. Bush...

April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to...

Nobody’s sane above the law.

Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled....

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look...

One of the better definitions of insanity – doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won’t waste their time arguing with...