Steven Wright Quotes

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

And how do you know that you're mad?

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

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

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.