"He used this great, sad, motionless face
to suggest various related things: a one-track
mind near the track's end of pure insanity;
mulish imperturbability under the wildest
of circumstances; how dead a human being
can get and still be alive . ."
-James Agee

"Nor should we listen to those who say
"The voice of the people is the voice of God,"
for the turbulence of the mob
is always close to insanity."
-Alcuin

"There is a thin line
between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line."
-Oscar Levant

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol,
violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"For me, insanity is super sanity.
The normal is psychotic.
Normal means lack of imagination,
lack of creativity."
-Jean Dubuffet

"Insanity runs in my family.
It practically gallops."
-Cary Grant

"Insanity is doing the same thing in the
same way and expecting a different outcome."
-Chinese Proverb

"Insanity in individuals
is something rare . . but in groups,
parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity is hereditary.
You get it from your children."
-Samuel Levenson