Robert Stone Quotes

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

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

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.'

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.

All I want to be is normally insane.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The United States is a madhouse.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I am not a madman or a nut.

It takes madness to find out madness.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.