"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
— Mark Twain

"If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them."
— Christopher Moore (Practical Demonkeeping)

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
— Tim Burton

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
— Edgar Allan Poe (Complete Tales and Poems)

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)

"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat)

"Sanity is a cozy lie."
— Susan Sontag

"Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. "
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

"The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place."
— Jim Butcher (Turn Coat)

"The only difference between Salvador Dali and a crazy man is that Salvador Dali is not crazy!"
— Salvador Dali

"Stephenie Meyer made my day and took my sanity away in one minute.How? She created Edward Cullen."
— Whisper Marie

"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
— Akira Kurosawa

"You're a very odd man," said Bert.

"I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles."
— James A. Owen (The Search for the Red Dragon)

"Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good."
— Theodore Kaczynski

"the point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later"
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."
— Allen Ginsberg

"ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ ......وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ "
— أبو الطيب المتنبي

"Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
— George Eliot

"Life it too short to deal with crazy people."
— Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with."
— Alison Larkin (The English American: A Novel)

"Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane."
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane."
— Philip José Farmer

"Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now."
— Dorothea Tanning

"The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think."
— Charles Baxter (Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction)

""I'm not insane. I merely completely and utterly refuse to accept society's notions of reality as being any more valid than my own.""
— James Norlin

"There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. "
— Tom Robbins

"We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because it was put before us...And this is understandable given the workings of our system where without a job we perish, where if we don't want a job and are happy to get by we are labeled irresponsible, non-contributing leeches on society. But if we hire a fleet of bulldozers, tear up half the countryside and build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, stalwarts of the community. Maybe we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are."
— Ferenc Mate (A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence)

"'I came,' she said, 'hoping you could talk me out a fantasy.'

'Cherish it!' cried Hilarius, fiercely. 'What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you loose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.'"
— Thomas Pynchon