Like Aslan's Country

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. --Kurt Vonnegut

Though history usually remembers you for one

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

--Aristotle

Out with a Bang

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing.”

-- Jack Kerouac

The X factor

“ I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." --Isaac Newton

Call me crazy

"As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it."-- Wendell Berry

requiem for a dying song

I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no brave last words, only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning "Why?" I don't think they were wondering why they were dying, but why they had ever lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams - -this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all - -to see life as it is and not as it should be--Don Quixote

The sound of madness

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars" - Jack Kerouac