"Mad God, mad thought / Take me for a walk," she writes, "Stalk me.
I remember being on a train and having this mad thought that I should visit 100 countries before I was 30 years old.
The lights were on and there was singing inside and I had this mad thought of going in, but for what?
The taillights, the coarse blaze of deserted office buildings, the lit storefronts, the orange fuzz of the street lanterns: all this garbage of light had been refined into a radiant atmosphere that rested in a low silver heap over Midtown and introduced to my mind the mad thought that the final twilight was upon New York.
It's not a mad thought to call them the most influential band of their kind.
Just in case I'm ever struck by the mad thought of running for political office in Israel, where I live, I'd like to set the record straight: I don't agree with the prophet Isaiah's political views.
Every Monday morning Sloane Crosley and Logan Hill will offer their post-"Mad Men" thoughts here.
Others, though, hear the repetitive music as the melody of the mad, conjuring thoughts of ice-cream-man dismemberment.
China is hopping mad at the thought that future theatre missile defences in Asia, along with national missile defences for America, could undermine its smaller nuclear deterrent.
Of course, it's the impatience, the unguarded stream-of-consciousness ranting, the exposed nerves, the mad, overheated tangle of thoughts, that makes him compelling and provocative in ways that he doesn't even intend.
