Webster Wade

“No, thanks. I'm busy being an island of sanity in a sea of utter madness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”
― Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems

“May infinite wisdom cure us of the madness of self-confidence.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents

“fiction writers are fully ten times more likely to be bipolar than the general population, and poets are an amazing forty times more likely to struggle with the disorder. Based on statistics like these, psychologist Daniel Nettle writes, “It is hard to avoid the conclusion that most of the canon of Western culture was produced by people with a touch of madness.” Essayist Brooke Allen does Nettle one better: “The Western literary tradition, it seems, has been dominated by a sorry collection of alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, manic-depressives, sexual predators, and various unfortunate combinations of two, three, or even all of the above.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human