Irving Stone Quotes

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I'm not a madman.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

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

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?