Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

Those who are sure of their sanity suffer from unawareness while those who feel insane are actually the sane ones.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and do amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long