“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

“Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.”

Mark Vonnegut (1947) American physician and writer

“I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

Stephen King book Skeleton Crew

“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”

Sharon G. Flake book The Skin I'm In

“Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.”

Banana Yoshimoto book NP

“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer