Harlan Coben Quotes

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

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

I've been insane from a very early age.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

... madness entered my veins.

I've always been a lunatic.

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

Kane dons the mask because he is horribly disfigured, unstable, mentally insane and crazy, so I thought it would basically look like he had escaped from an institution. Then, I get the creative for the costume, and it looked like a superhero.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.