No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.
