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...

so are you going to marry me or what?”He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to...

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

They nearly saved my sanity.

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won’t be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

Annie winced. “Ooooh, you know, it’s remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

Something Simon composed years ago is playing on someone else’s personal headphones; it’s a man sat opposite him in the waiting room. He believes the man is destroying his piece by reading a car magazine...

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why is that?- What’s that, Marshal?- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?- I...

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

…gender is not sane. It’s not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don’t remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn’t even know its own depth?

How do I know you’re not crazy?” she asks. “How do I know you’re not the craziest dude I’ve ever met?” “You’ll have to test me out.” “You have my info,” she says. “I’ll think...

The point is, you see,” said Ford, “that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Compared to bipolar’s magic, reality seems a raw deal. It’s not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it’s the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity – the realization of illnesss, the humiliating...

I really believe,” said Wanda thoughtfully,”that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.

I came,” she said, “hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy.”Cherish it!” cried Hilarious, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it’s little tentacle, don’t let the Freudians...

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation?...

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity...

And I still say it was just a coincidence;’ he muttered pugnaciously. ‘You say it too! Look at me and say it! It was just a coincidence. That happened to be the nearest place on...

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

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

People are all crazy… but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were...

The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, “the wildest dreams,” into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his artfulness that makes us feel at home; it is the weak writer who...

Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw...

He’d managed to take hold of her being, her poise and twisted it that it’d mutilated so bad. Even she had forgotten how it had felt to be sane.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact...

Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted “Come on in the door is open.” Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and found Temporary Insanity roaming the corridors of my mind unchecked, going into rooms,...

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should’ve all just gone on medication

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to...

What’s the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I’m not sure if I’m mad or sane. I mean, I hold my...

Those who are sure of their sanity suffer from unawareness while those who feel insane are actually the sane ones.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn’t just jump over and have done with it.