“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


"Manics generate the most progress in the least time with the highest collateral grief. We are the agitated hearts of the world beating triple time."

― Gary Hyland, Mildly Manic: A Poet Meets John Nash in McLean Hospital, Boston, 1959