Chaos is the law (Adams)

Chaos is the law of nature and order is the dream of man, and the imposition of order on a corner of chaos is the function—or illusion—of art.

Henry Adams

Madness is divergence from reality

Madness is divergence from reality, denial of fact, distance from the truth. Given the way our brains work, as aggressive model-making engines of approximation, each of us is demonstrably mad, distinguished only by the amplitude of our deviation.