“The mad can make their own laws.”

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

“The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.”

“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”

“A casus omissus can in no case be supplied by a Court of law, for that would be to make laws.”

“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”

“the mad have a grace all their own”

“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”