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"Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas."
"If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people."
"Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses."
"I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue."
"When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!"
"Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest."
"For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them."
"The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way."
"He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness."
"I'm not a crazy old cat lady!"
"I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game."
"I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head"
"Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen."
"Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different."
"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn."
"The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy."
"I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar."
"When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy."
"I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?"
"And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh."
