“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”

“(Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.'(Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?”

“We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?”

“Wake up in the morning I shall wake up and so shall you and I Wake up, the sun is beautifulAnd it is warming you and IFragile as we lie”

“I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.”

“I will praise your madness, andin a language not mine, speakof music that wakes us, musicin which we move. For whatever I sayis a kind of petition, and the darkestdays must I praise.”