The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas

an insane man talks nonsense because like a bird or a cat he is too sensible to talk sense.

sanity, after all, is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it.

Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits;

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.