Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup.

Madness, and then illumination.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)

Is it just this miserable fucking city, too many faces, making us crazy? Are we seeing some wholesale return of the dead?” “You’d prefer retail?

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical.

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.

“It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.”

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

"Humor is reason gone mad."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters"

"Madness breeds madness."

"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die."

"‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"