Century Quote by Patty Duke

“what you call insanity, I call inspiration”

— Anonymous

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

— Deb Caletti

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

— Anthony Storr

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

— R. D. Laing

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's…

— Julia Leigh

A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment.…

— Brad Warner

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now

— L. Ron Hubbard

Perception determines insanity.

— Phil Collins

I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers of the…

— Neil Evans

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

— Charles Bukowski