“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult.”
“Performance anxiety and a dry-cleaning bill; those were the only things keeping me from stark raving lunacy.”
“Stark raving mad.”
“Stark raving sane.”
“She's stark raving mad!”
“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.”