Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I don't really trust a sane person.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I'm not a madman.

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

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I teach that all men are mad.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

Is Mr. [John Quincy] Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confined to a hospital.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.