Eoin Colfer Quotes

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

It's true we're all a little insane.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

And how do you know that you're mad?

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

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

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Sanity is a compromise.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.