Liz Phair Quotes

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

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

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

There are worse things than being mad.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.