To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.
Madness breeds madness.
It is not possible to teach an entire generation to bomb and destroy others in an undeclared, unjustified war abroad without paying the price in the derangement of our own society.
Referring to the Vietnam War:
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
Madness, and then illumination.
