The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

Se o problema são os demónios estrangula-os com a tua loucura.If the problem is the demons strangle them with your madness.

Open the door to my madness, and then climb in through the window. Be sure to knock on the door first, because I’ll be in the fridge.

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Hé woffode ðá swá lange mid wordum dyslíce, óð ðæt hé feóll geswógen.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

she will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.