Everyone's crazy, but few show it.
Hannah VandegriftAs a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.
Libba BrayTags: imagination adventure crazy quick-plot-summary
She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?"
"Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?"
She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?"
"Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy.
"Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
Tags: life people crazy cameron-and-dulcie
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
Peter KreeftTags: inspirational philosophy christianity god jesus spirituality crazy theology catholicism jesus-christ christ crazy-love jesus-shock crazy-in-love
This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.
Russell BrandTags: humor interview funny crazy thoughts
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.
Rick YanceyTags: crazy therapists
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
Anne LamottTags: sanity crazy insane nuts tribe
Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.
Katie KacvinskyTags: insanity sanity crazy insane awaken
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan ChanceTags: insanity sanity explanation prejudice crazy mystery discrimination psychiatry understand mental-illness bias stereotype lunacy explain mental-disorder mental-health-stigma stigma diagnosis psychology-quotes sane-and-insane
Crazy gets all the knives.
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