William Saroyan Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

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

People think I'm nuts.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

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

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

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

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.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

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.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

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

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

To laugh is proper to man.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)