Karen Russell Quotes

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

The United States is a madhouse.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

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

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

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

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

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.

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.'