“with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.”
“When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.”
“The purpose of the nervous system is to organize chaos.”
“At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.”
“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the cabin against the window background of such frantic natural scenery), the will of man and the lunacy of God.”
“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”