The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

—Diane Ackerman

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

—Diane Ackerman

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

—Diane Ackerman

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

—Diane Ackerman

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

—Akira Kurosawa

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

—Ed Meese

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

—Pat Conroy

Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Pull

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

—Robert Louis Stevenson