“Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion.”

“Marxist socialism also had dark nooks and crannies where Jews were regarded as money-mad capitalists or as an ‘obsolete’ people who refused to join the onward march of secular progress towards a moneyless society. Anarchists also suffered from this contagion,…”

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

“What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?”

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.”

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.”