One ought to hold on to ones heart for if one lets it go one soon loses control of the head too.

Love n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Were all dreaming Arctor said. If the last to know hes an addict is the addict then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real or just induced as a contact lunacy by the situation. Donna always was a pivot point of reality for him for her this was the basic natural question. He wished he could answer.

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp cutting shards shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly both caught in a cocoon of raw nerves and open sores she was insanity wrapped up in the thin transient wrappings of a temporary lucidity and she was afraid because an innate desire lay in the bottom reaches of her psyche for the very poison that was killing her.

Dreaming A quite peaceful permission to be insane every night.

Dont worry if people think youre crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who theyre destined to be.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.