Quotes on Crazy

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

It's very hard to win without any problems. To win, you have to fight. And many times, this fight means to indispose in certain ways with some people, to prevail your beliefs. Your point of view, your ideas and your personality above everything. If you don`t fight hard, you lose your own way. And if you lose your own way, you`re nobody. So, to achieve this line of conduct, you have to fight very hard. And in many times, you really have to fight.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and you can`t be simple. Any goal and you can`t be herenow. Any goal and the desire will rock you. Any goal, and you are on the way, again moving - you cannot enjoy this moment, the grace of this moment, the benediction of herenow.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.