Quotes on Crazy

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.

My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as you. That's how I can have more shows.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.