If there is no kindness with your rightness, then that is madness.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant-impossible socially, but full-scale-and it's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.

Madness is no madness when shared.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Men will always be mad and those who think they can cure them are maddest of all.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

The wily lunatic is lost if through the narrowest crack he allows a sane eye to peer into his locked universe and thus profane it.

I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.

I read somewhere that seventy per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the twenty-three per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.