“Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.”
“Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress”
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.”
“The only handicap in life is a bad attitude.”
“People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.”