Quotations About / On: CRAZY

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns
it and spends it every day in order to live knows
that money is money, anybody who votes it to be
gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That
is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn
money and spend money every day anybody can know the
difference between a million and three. But when you
vote money away there really is not any difference
between a million and three.

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.

It's this crazy weather we've been having:
Falling forward one minute, lying down the next
Among the loose grasses and soft, white, nameless flowers.

Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.

Those whispering guns—O Christ, I want to go out
And screech at them to stop—I'm going crazy;
I'm going stark, staring mad because of the guns.

We often treat our children as though they are the first children in history to exhibit such terrible behavior. In our anger, we communicate to them that "good" children don't behave in those ways when in fact good children do. Instead of acknowledging that this is appropriate developmental behavior, we think our children are doing things deliberately to drive us crazy.

"O.K., Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy. You've been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now let's see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on."

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.

Ellen, I was crazy to read your book; but I never found anybody I could borrow it from!