“Geraldine: I'm quite sane!
Rance: Pull yourself together. Why have you been certified if you're sane? Even for a madwoman you're unusually dense.”

“You're a supplement, You're a salve,
You're a bandage, pull it off
I can quit you, cut it out.
You're a patient, iron lung.”

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

“You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that.”

“When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.”

“That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.”

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.”

“Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even!”