I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I’m mad. – Hilary Mantel
I always reference ‘Mad Max’ when I think about what I want to wear. But it’s a fine line between that and ‘Edward Scissorhands’. – Julian Casablancas
A mad person isn’t someone who sees what isn’t there; he’s someone who sees what is there but that others can’t see. I really believe that. – John Burnside
Like ‘Twin Peaks,’ ’24,’ ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘The Sopranos’ before it, ‘Downton Abbey’ enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. – James Wolcott
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz. – Imelda May
I don’t like the term ‘mental illness.’ I’d rather just say ‘mad.’ Just like I always say ‘loony bin,’ not ‘mental hospital.’ – John Burnside
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. – James Fenton
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! – Jules Verne
My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad. – James Nesbitt
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan
It’s been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. – Johnny Depp
I’m a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can’t eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that’s no good. – Jensen Ackles
I’ve always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it’ll be like ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people. – James Adomian
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. – Aleister Crowley
