„The scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them.“

„It was said, with what truth we know not, that all Cambridge scholars call the cipher aught, and all Oxford scholars call it nought.“

—  Maria Edgeworth Irish writer 1768 - 1849

„Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.“

—  Tamora Pierce, livre Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

„That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.“

—  Kelley Armstrong, livre The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

„When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.“

—  Susanna Kaysen American writer 1948

Susan Cheever, "A Designated Crazy," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1993. (Reviewing Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted.)
On Girl, Interrupted

„Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

„I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.“

—  Charles Bukowski, livre Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

„What makes a leftist a leftist is not this or that theory but his ability to integrate any theory into the kitsch called the Grand March.“

—  Milan Kundera, livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

„They can call me crazy if I fail
All the chance that I need
Is one in a million
And they can call me brilliant
If I succeed…“

—  Ani DiFranco musician and activist 1970

Swan Dive
Song lyrics

„If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

„In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.“

—  Milan Kundera, livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Contexte: In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.

„Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.“

—  Nat King Cole American singer and jazz pianist 1919 - 1965

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

„Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy“

—  Michael Ondaatje, livre In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

„Their superstitions will allow them to believe things without much critical thought.“

—  Sean Russell author 1952

Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 6 (p. 76)

„"When I was crazy." the radio explained, "I thought you were great."“

—  Daniel Handler, livre Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Wrongly

„What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 21.

„Now we will throw these mediocre kitsch-mongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.“

—  Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American composer 1874 - 1951

Arnold Schoenberg, in a letter to Alma Mahler, 1914 (after the outbreak of the First World War); as quoted in "Impressions of War" http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/impressions-of-war by Philip Clark, The Gramophone, 4 August 2014
Schoenberg's quote regarding: 'the bourgeois tendencies of musical reactionaries such as Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel'
1910s

„You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either!
I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!“

—  Sophie Kinsella, livre Mini Shopaholic

Source: Mini Shopaholic

„I called him to buy some meth, but I threw it away.“

—  Ted Haggard American minister 1956

KKTV http://www.kktv.com/unclassified/769277.html?video&displayHelp=true, accessed 3 November 2006.

„Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.“

—  Eoin Colfer Irish author of children's books 1965

Source: The Atlantis Complex