Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

Don't confuse poetry with madness.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.