F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I've been insane from a very early age.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

It takes madness to find out madness.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

... madness entered my veins.

... the work of lunatics.