When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.
How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.
If you went crazy, would you know it?
