“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”

“There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.”

“Passionate love produces distorted visions of actual people. Men who are too much in love expect such extraordinary happiness from marriage that they are frequently disappointed.”

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”

“Black men are often seen in two-dimensional ways as historical racist ideas have been passed on, and the media doesn’t help – reinforcing these ridiculous stereotypes. We often conflate black British men with African men, and it was important to get nuances on paper.”

“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”