“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”
Source: All These Things I've Done
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As quoted in Colin Wilson New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 155-56.
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Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”
Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)


“If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.”
Variant: If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”
Source: Words of Radiance

“I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.”