Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

It’s not the mainstream. It’s just the status quo.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

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

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

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

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

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.