"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here’s a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?"
— Jack Handey

"'Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.'"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
— Ambrose Bierce

"Jealousy will drive you mad!!"
— Moulin Rouge

"“I don't think—”. “Then you shouldn't talk,” said the Hatter.

“No, no! The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.” "
— Lewis Carroll (ALICE IN WONDERLAND)

"my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell."
— Igor Stravinsky

"You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are."
— Don Draper

"It was the hotel room that first set me in a bad mood."
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

""Who lit the fuse on your tampon?""
— Sheekatra

"Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God."
— Warren Ellis