Jim Carroll Quotes

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.