Joseph Heller Quotes

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

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

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

I think I am mad sometimes.

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

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

--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.

Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

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