Susan Sontag Quotes

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

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

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

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.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that 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.

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

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

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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.

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

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

We are all born mad. Some remain so.