“ He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Umberto Eco
“ So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the or of a friend's child, or in order to have a deba… Christopher Hitchens
“ I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japane… John Fowles
“ The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'. Dada Bhagwan
“ Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if… Richard Matheson
“ Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm Munia Khan
“ The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with ho… Karl Menninger
“ What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. R. D. Laing
