Alan Dean Foster Quotes

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you're walking in the workout truck, and when things aren't going well, you're walking in the therapy truck.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I get frustrated but never depressed.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

It's true we're all a little insane.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

All I want to be is normally insane.

I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.