Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an...

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is...

Don’t be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation

but i’m still here. sometimes i wonder why i’m still waiting. sometimes i’m shaking. that’s how you make me. sometimes i question why i’m still here. sometimes i think that i’m crazy.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

If I was crazy, would I know it? That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar–I say, you say, he and she, it, on...

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Gossiping’s part of witchcraft,’ said Tiffany. ‘They’re checking to see if they’ve gone batty yet.

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

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

Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I’m not institutionalised by 30 I’ll seriously question the judgement of my friends and family.

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can’t be insane.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

She wasn’t about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn’t follow me, because oftentimes, people...

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Just because I’m insane doesn’t mean I have to act all crazy.

It is a well-worn truth that cops grow callous, a cliché so tattered that it is even common on television. All cops face things every day that are so gruesome, brutal, and bizarre that no...

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.

The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine — cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary...

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge.

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It’s really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world....

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a...

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

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the...

So deep is the conflict, I believe I cannot breathe for all the doubt, guilt and sorrow my sister is pushing into me as her hand presses harder upon my sore breastplate and her fingers...