"Tis a mad world, my masters."
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"The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it."
"Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad."
"We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963"
"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
"When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself."
"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
"He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth."
"L.A. scares the crap out of me. I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad. I will absolutely lose it."
"Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute."
"'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'"
"People are mad a Donald Trump for allegedly making a joke about Megyn Kelly having her period. Trump said, 'Trust me, I know what goes on down there, because I'm a huge douche.'"
"Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive."
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf."
"Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad."
"A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad."
"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."
"I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals."
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."