“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.”

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”

“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”

“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

“I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.”

“You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him."You're still in touch. I guess that's the test.""Barely — barely.""A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and 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." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.”