madness

9. Craziness:

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'"
- Lewis Carroll

9. Tenderness:

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. Gutsiness:

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."
- Nikos Kazantzakis

9. Joyfulness:

"'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'"
- Jack Kerouac

9. Drunkenness:

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
- Seneca

9. Pithiness:

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

9. Harness:

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
- Robin Williams

9. Thoughtfulness:

"Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets as sanity does."
- Virginia Woolf

9. Truthiness:

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
- John Lennon

9. Distinctiveness:

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali

9. Madness:

"Madness, madness, they call it madness ..."
- Madness (orig. Prince Buster)

- Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

This article appeared on page G - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle