Madden Quotations

Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Anger can sometimes be adaptive. We're showing for the first time that when you are in a situation that is maddening and in which anger or indignation are justifiable responses, anger is not bad for you.

For many months the US was standoffish from this reform process, which is odd, since reform of the United Nations is a US priority. What the US is finding once again is that as maddening as it can be, the UN is a necessary forum for us - and it will work better if we work to get certain changes done.

It is maddening that we play instruments that do not stay in tune for very long. This seems a bit insane, considering the fact that we are surrounded by so much incredible technology.

The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

The maddening aspect is you get all the responsibility and none of the authority. It's very clear what you are supposed to do, which is to pay for the whole thing. But you are banned from using the word 'Olympic' and the Olympic rings.

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.