Maureen Dowd Quotes

No sane man will dance.

I don't celebrate really crazy.

No man in his senses will dance.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

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

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.