There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the ...only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;... Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is on...e of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How strange to have failed as a social creature--even criminals do not fail that way--they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to... speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a turbulent moon-ridden girl... or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »