When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.