Quote of the Day (Oscar Levant, on His Periodic Mental Episodes)

“I have seizures of momentary sanity.”—Pianist, actor, author, and wit Oscar Levant (1905-1972), The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

Quote of the Day (Theodore Roethke, on Madness)

“What's madness but nobility of soul

At odds with circumstance?"—American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), “In a Dark Time,” in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1963) 

Quote of the Day (Richard Yates, Defining ‘Insane’)

“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”— American fiction writer Richard Yates (1926-1992), Revolutionary Road (1961)

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Quote of the Day (Walker Percy, on Living in ‘A Deranged Age’)

“You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” —Novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990), Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)

Quote of the Day (Alain de Botton, With a Standard Question for First Dates)

“A standard question on any initial dinner date should simply be: ‘So in what particular ways are you crazy?’"— Swiss writer, philosopher, and television presenter Alain de Botton, October 7, 2014 tweet

Quote of the Day (Mary-Louise Parker, on ‘One Person’s Crazy’)

“One person’s crazy is another person’s refreshing. I was always a very hidden, quiet child, and in some ways I can be opaque as an adult. I can have an air of vacancy about me. I can see it in my son. He can go so far away, and people made fun of me as a kid about that. But I hate fakeness. You have to be true to yourself.”—Mary-Louise Parker, quoted in Patrick Healy, “Never Neutral, and Proud of It,” The New York Times, October 13, 2013

Photo of Mary-Louise Parker at the 2010 Comic-Con in San Diego by Rick Marshall