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

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”

“Mankind is like dogs, not gods — as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you — but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.”

“Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.”

“There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.”

“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”

“Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows…”

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”

“Some word that teems with hidden meaning, like "Basingstoke". It might recall me to my saner self. For, after all, I am only Mad Margaret! Daft Meg! Poor Meg! He! he! he!”

“What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!”