
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad…”
“There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.”
"Old midwestern saying" created by Jones for his story, as stated in James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master (1998) by Steven R. Carter
The Thin Red Line (1962)
“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)