Wallace Thurman Quotes

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

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

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.

If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

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

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

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

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

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