How we cite our quotes: (Preface if applicable, Paragraph)
Quote #1
Then, when I had given up and gone back to the alley, a few colored letters were dropped here and there, reflected on the asphalt in front of me. I read: FOR MADMEN ONLY! (10)
Now that's our kind of club! This first mysterious appearance of the phrase points to the trail of breadcrumbs Pablo and Hermine are leaving for Harry, leading him to the Magic Theater.
Quote #2
Next, my family life fell in ruins over night, when my wife, whose mind was disordered, drove me from house and home. (70)
Most of the time we think of Harry as our main mad man in the novel, but here he's showing us that it is something that has plagued his social life, too. It almost gives us the idea that madness is contagious.
Quote #3
Madman, then, I must certainly be and far from the mold of "everybody" if those voices reached me and that world spoke to me. (78)
Euclid would be proud. If the entertainment is only for madmen, and Harry is invited to the entertainment, then he must be a madman. Q.E.D. But actually, Harry has always thought of himself as a little bit crazy; isn't that what the whole Steppenwolf idea is all about? It's a way of him explaining his irrational side to himself.