Bayard Taylor Quotes

I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.

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

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

People think I'm nuts.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

I think we all have a little crazy in us.

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

I'm the last of the mad ones.

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.