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With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.