# Quote — Pat Cadigan, Mindplayers

> It gets tricky here, but it’s always seemed to be that sanity is, or can be, as relative as anything else. Sacrifice an animal to Zeus and predict the future from the formation of its entrails—do that as a general in ancient Greece hoping for victory in a coming battle and you’re prudent. Do it today and you’re a clinical paranoid and a mean one, too. Sanity, like customs and manners, seems to have a strong basis in the accepted standards of a particular time and place.

- Author: [Pat Cadigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan.md)
- Book: [Mindplayers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers.md)
- Page: 278
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Mindplayers_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers/it-gets-tricky

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