Ruth Rendell Quotes

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

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.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The United States is a madhouse.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

America is a lunatic asylum.

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.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

It takes madness to find out madness.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

I'm a lunatic.

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

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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 think everybody's nuts.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

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

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

I teach that all men are mad.