“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”

— Terry Goodkind , book The Pillars of Creation

Source: The Pillars of Creation

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Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer

The Overman Culture (1971)

“But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.”

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

Source: Seduce Me in Dreams

“When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

Interview on CBS, 03 October 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNv_a1CbX30, Philip Roth on Fame, Sex, and God http://www.cbsnews.com/news/philip-roth-on-fame-sex-and-god/ (3 October 2010)

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

“One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

As quoted in "Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas" at CNN (13 December 1999) http://archives.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/13/heller/index.html

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”

Paul di Filippo (1954)

Source: How To Write Science Fiction

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”

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