Gary Paulsen Quotes

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

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

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

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

... madness entered my veins.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

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

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

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

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

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.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

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