Maurice Sendak Quotes

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

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

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Control your life through insanity.

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

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

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.'

People think I'm nuts.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

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

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

I have a plan-to go mad.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.