Charles Bukowski Quotes

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

I have a plan-to go mad.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

I'm not a madman.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

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

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

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

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

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

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.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.