Michael Gruber Quotes

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

I'll die a crazy old man!

People think I'm nuts.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Lunatics with money in America are never mad–just eccentric.

I've always been a lunatic.

Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.