If you see a man running down the street cock-flapping, you run with that man. 'Cause there is some scary shit coming the other way.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

The madman is a dreamer awake

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.

He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east.

Locke’s definition of a madman: someone “reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.

Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?

Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

"No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something."

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man — given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

The man who runs may fight again.

"XXIV

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never-"

"You lie" he cried
And ran on."