Tom Robbins Quotes

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

Society wants happy families.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Being crazy isn't enough.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

They be crazier than we are.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Insanity is arguing with reality.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?