Rick Yancey Quotes

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

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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.'

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'

I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

You can't just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it's a lot funnier. That's my favorite, when you think it's a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.

The more intelligent, the less sane

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.