“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

To discover the depth of darkness, you have to speak your mind out loud and be willing to be seen as crazy in the eyes of people because insanity is a duende moving darkness aside, showing what’s behind the black curtains.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it’s easy to say, ‘Ah, I’ll workout tomorrow.’ But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.