Margaret Anderson Quotes

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

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

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

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.

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

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

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.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.