Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

People think I'm nuts.

The Mad Monk

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

We of the craft are all crazy.

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

the mad have a grace all their own

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.