Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.