Normality

I wouldn't say I'm normal, but I'm relatively stable. When I think of normalcy I think of mediocrity and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me.

— Normality

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Normality

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

— Normality

The note I wanted; that of the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy.

— Normality

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

— Normality

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

— Normality

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

— Normality

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.

— Normality