#sane

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#across #ask #come #flower #i

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! ↗

— Bob Livingston

#by the time #champion #cotton #cotton fields #down

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. ↗

— Gary Locke

#asian #could #course #dad #doctor

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#before #better #choose #decide #ever

Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig. ↗

— Kate Mara

#flaming #had #hair #head #i

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#equilibrium #fortunately #men #nations #sane

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#curious #find #go #i #insane

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to. ↗