“This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes”

— Karen Chance

Source: Hunt the Moon

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Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

“We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22)
Source: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).

“Camilla cooked breakfast for us, and we ate from plates on our laps. The fare was fried corn meal and bacon and eggs. Sammy ate with the peculiar robustness of unhealthy people. After the meal, Camilla gathered the tin plates and washed them. Then she had her own breakfast, seated in a far corner, quiet except for the sound of her fork against the tin plate.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace (1997), p. 249

“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

Actually from Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Act IV, scene iv, line 63. In the original German:
Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte:
Man muss geschäftig sein, sobald sie reift.
Misattributed