“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”

“Langley seemed prepared for anything, even for an indeterminable number of universes interfused — physics stark mad in metaphysics.”

“Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.”

“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

“We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals.”

“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”

“If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.”

“Although the mutual laughter may seem six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, it is not. The Christian is profoundly mad merely by the standards of the world. To the world the wicked seem wise, but are mad in the sight of God. The Christian is touched by the Infinite and will not only have the last laugh at the end of time: even now he laughs more insanely than the worldlings.”