Ezra Pound Quotes

The United States is a madhouse.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

The Emperor Francis is already ill. The other leaders [of the nation] are all mad and belong in the lunatic asylum.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.

The Madness of President George

Is Mr. [John Quincy] Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confined to a hospital.

I've always been a lunatic.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.