“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”
Source: The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath 342
American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
“I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.”
Que tuve todo lo sé, no por lo que tuve. Lo sé porque después no tuve más.
Voces (1943)
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.”
Source: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16

Mad About the Boy (1932)

As quoted in "Fined, Suspended: Clemente Hit Hard By Giles" by Bill Nunn, Jr. in The New Pittsburgh Courier (June 8, 1963), p. 23
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1963</big>

“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes