Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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.

I'm not a madman.

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

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

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

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

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

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

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

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

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

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.

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

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.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

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