Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
What doesn't bend, breaks.
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.
I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.
I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.
One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
Writers. . . I think. . . live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
This is no time to make new enemies.