Martin H. Fischer Quotes

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

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

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

I'm not a nutcase. I know that.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

The United States is a madhouse.

I am not a madman or a nut.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

... the work of lunatics.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

America is a lunatic asylum.