Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
Only a madman would give good for evil
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman. . . Which is probably the same thing!
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office
History is the autobiography of a madman.
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
The madman is a dreamer awake
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
