Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.