“I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.”
“-Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”
“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”
“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”
“sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.”
“I loved him in the way that one loves those who no longer matter: poignantly.”