I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was…

“I want people to tell their children terrible stories about the things we did for love”

— A Softer World

I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people…

— Ben Fountain

“I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were…

— John Barnes

You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids.…

— Rafe Esquith

“Derangement - reasoned derangement: that was the key. To break the mould, the chains, the bars that held the flesh and the spirit; to…

— James Ramsey Ullman

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

— Jonas Mekas

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

— Jim Morrison

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

— Louis Pasteur

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of…

— Dave Barry

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

— Tom Stoppard

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

— Emile M. Cioran

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is…

— Philip K. Dick

“I must say that I thought there was some derangement of his mental organization.”

— Candice Millard

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge