Where to look if you've lost your mind?
Bernard MalamudTags: insanity sanity mind crazy
I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir NabokovTags: inspirational insanity
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel LeeTags: insanity madness mad psychiatry mental-health mental-illness mental-disorder mental-health-stigma insane-world insanity-is-normal psychiatry-humor
He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald BarthelmeAll writers are insane!
Cornelia FunkeSee what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.
Robin WilliamsTags: humor life insanity sanity
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.
Susanna ClarkeTime and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
Susanna ClarkePerfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
Rebecca McKinseyTags: humor insanity sanity myth culture
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?
And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.
Tags: imagination insanity inspiration world evil god sanity good creation aspiration common-sense deity divinity order multiplicity scandal amiable scandalous
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