Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.