There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.