In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become ‘normal’, the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

In our national parlance, what’s usually meant by the word “maverick” is someone who skirts the edge of sanity–or is so insane as to appear sane–who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the...

It’s regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That’s why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don’t, we won’t live to tell about it.

Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

It is at this hour that I am in my right mind: it is all the rest of the day that I am enchanted.

This is insanity!””No, this is scholarship!

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

You see, there’s a theory current you’re insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.

Kyubey: …Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn’t a sane act, Madoka!

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.

We realize we can’t go around saying and doing what we’re actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that’s how you know you’re talking to a...

I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they,...

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day – very much such a sweetness as this – I struck my first whale – a boy-harpooneer of...

Genius – the pursuit of madness.

Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

One man’s insanity is another man’s genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls”.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it “evil.” It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

I’m talking to myself in two different personas now. I’m reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn’t insanity than what is?

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend...

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

They said what doesn’t kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of...

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.