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"I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life."
"But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question."
"I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy."
"That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet."
"Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!"
"I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that."
"I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar."
"Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? “No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well."
"I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how many people weren't accepting of that."
"The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy."
"Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't."
"There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from."
"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."
"Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour on the 405 freeway on a motorcycle and she doesn't believe me but it's a true story. I did it coming home from work at 3 in the morning on another movie I made about cars called Gone in 60 Seconds. I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it."
"American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic."
"You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there."
"Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)"
"I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to."
""A minority of one"... the definition of insanity."
"It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy."
