City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure…

— Terry Pratchett

“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness…

— Hermann Bahr

It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible…

— Proclus

“I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling…

— Arthur Machen

“They were still looming at opposite ends of the perspective, each with an absurd pretence of not having the other on his mind, which…

— Charles Dickens

“Mrs. Casnoff made me write a statement to the Council a few weeks after it happened. Everything's in there." "I read that. And neither…

— Rachel Hawkins

“You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be…

— Chaim Potok

“His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events; I…

— Derek Raymond

“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished it. You…

— Hugh Howey

“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”

— Shannon L. Alder