Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.

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

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

He had delusions of adequacy.

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

I think everybody's nuts.

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.'

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.