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How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to talk, mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles explo

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis has won the war. This is the Sixth Reich.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.