“ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE.”

“I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive… I’m absolutely intolerable.”

“Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.”

“Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.”

“Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were.”

“They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.”

“The madman is a dreamer awake”

“What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true.”

“The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.”

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”