Christopher Moore Quotes

Insanity is just a state of mind.

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

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

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

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

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.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

A mad man sees what he sees.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

If you went crazy, would you know it?