Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a strait-jacket.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Much madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest Madness — ‘Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail — Assent, and you are sane — Demur — you’re straightway dangerous — And handled with a Chain —
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
