insanity

Horace__ eyes get wide, and he glances between me and the house. __very time I think I got a grip on this crazy shit going on in your head, I realize I don__ know the half of it, do I?__y eyes tracing the red trim of the house, I shake my head. __ot even close.

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

I have to admit, insanity is so much fun.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Are you insane?_ she__ replied. __es._ Jeoff didn__ even bat an eye as he admitted it.-Arabella & Jeoff

But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it?He thought, It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they have caused and are causing. No, he thought. That isn't it. I don't know; I sense it, I intuit it. But -- they are purposelessly cruel... is that it? No, God, he thought. I can't find it, make it clear. Do they ignore parts of reality? Yes. But it is more. It is their plans. Yes, their plans. The conquering of the planets. Something frenzied and demented, as was their conquering of Africa, and before that, Europe and Asia.Their view; it is cosmic. Not a man here, a child there, but an abstraction : race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honourable men but of Ehre itself, hounor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. Die Güte, but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time.

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.