Mackenzie Phillips Quotes

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I'm not a madman.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I'm a lunatic.

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.