Peter Milligan Quotes

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

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

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

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

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

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

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

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.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

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.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?