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...

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore...

I do not have OCD OCD OCD.

Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing.

Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states. I noted that criminals as well...

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to...

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one’s self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To...

throws of love ballets and magic moments wished for”. However, I wondered if he ever watched National Lampoon’s Vacation. Chevy Chase had purpose, a plan, intent and found Wally World closed. I kind of don’t...

But what defines insanity , really !? Is it your mind or the mind of the person making the judgment !? Because all of us , no matter who you are , can go insane...

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine...

Belane, are you nuts?”Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

There’s moisture in my madness. I should start keeping my insanity in Tupperware containers.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Very soon she’ll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed...

If someone tells you you’re crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It’s that old psychiatrist’s joke: insanity’s all in your head.

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back....

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love…

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.

And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can’t tell the difference, I’m never quite...

Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.

Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are....

Innocence is a kind of insanity

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

One of them hasn’t got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he...

If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it...

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

He was nuts. He’d scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.Not that that’s ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

That’s why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they’re nice until they’re chaining you up in the garage.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Durante el tiempo en que permaneció en su celda Ivánov se hizo amigo de una rata a la que puso el nombre de Nikita.Por las noches, cuando la rata aparecía, Ivánov sostenía largas conversaciones con...

All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else’s nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will...

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.

When you realize that there’s a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you’ve identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and...

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from...

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.