When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.