“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.”
William Shakespeare
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
“Briefly leaving behind the molars and malocclusions to enter Yoknapatawpha County, the mythical realm of madmen and malingerers, drifters and grifters, funeral parties and lynch mobs.”
Samuel G. Freedman
“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”
Diogenes
“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”
Cynthia Ozick
“This is an act of war by madmen.”
Chris Patten