Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.
People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.
If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.
So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.
A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.
I do a lot of strange things.
If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.
Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
There are some loony people in this world!
How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
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.
They be crazier than we are.
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.
