Still, it's good to be reminded that creative individuals still have choices, that writers don't necessarily also have to be travel-crazy public speakers, that different sorts of people can find their audience in different ways, and that quality counts.
For Bezos to have seen a bookstore as a means to world domination at the beginning of the Internet age, when there was already a crisis of confidence in the publishing world, in a country not known for its book-crazy public, was a stroke of business genius.
"We're outliers, everyone's looking at us like we're crazy," State public defender Dixon says.
Cushing's zeal for government involvement was such that member of the Canadian House of Commons Peter Talbot in 1908 warned Rutherford that his Public Works Minister was "going crazy" with public ownership and that Rutherford would "someday find a lot of trouble through him".
It is hard to imagine how the cricket-crazy Indian public will cope with his retirement.
You're crazy, thinking the public doesn't know.
You're crazy, thinking the public isn't waking up".
Boris Johnson, the London mayor, said it was "crazy" to spend public money on the leaflets.
It "sold like crazy," said Pamela Doan, public relations manager for Babeland, a chain of adult shops in New York, Seattle and Los Angeles.
The announcement sparked fury among Brexit campaigners, with the London mayor, Boris Johnson, calling it "crazy" to spend public money on the leaflet campaign.
