There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

In a completely sane world madness is the only freedom.

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write compose or paint can manage to escape the madness melancholia the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

A whole lot of us believers of all different religions are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together in both the dark and the light - in other words through life - registering voters as we go and keeping the faith.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion a shadow a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream and dreams themselves are only dreams.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.