Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I teach that all men are mad.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I hate the expression, 'I'm not fake.'

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.