Dan has been getting creepy slips of paper with quotes about insanity on them. The coolest one is by Ray Bradbury: "Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
So that's clearly a dig at the warden, which is cool because that's who Dan is obsessing over. Beyond that, it's just a really cool quote. It's saying that our definitions of insanity are all based on norms that society has, and just because society says that something is normal, that doesn't mean it is. Definitions are not real, and thus insanity is not concrete. It's all interpretation. It's all bias. It's not all true.
And, side note, Bradbury wrote some of the dystopian texts we read last year (Farenheit 451, for example), so this isn't an insanity-related quote so much as a condemnation of societal norms. Fun facts.
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