We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Madness breeds madness.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.

Madness is somewhere between chaos and having a dream.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Children inherit their parents' madness.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings....the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of all arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art....So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense...madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Madness is the genius’ substitute for stupidity.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.