Posts tagged madness

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Neil Gaiman 

The Next Three Days

  • John Brennan: So, the life in times of Don Quixote, what is it about?
  • Female College Student: That someone's belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself?
  • John Brennan: Yes... that's in the there. But what is it about? Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul? Could it be about the triumph of irrationality and the power that is in that? You know, we spend a lot of time trying to organize the world. We build clocks and calendars and we try to predict the weather. But what part of our life is truly under our control? What if we choose to exist purely in a reality of our own making? Does that render us insane? And if it does, isn't that better than a life of despair?
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
 A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry