"It always amazes me how much people frequently hail and agree with the life perspectives of a man who was, for all purposes, clinically psychotic and mentally

"It always amazes me how much people frequently hail and agree with the life perspectives of a man who was, for all purposes, clinically psychotic and mentally unstable most of the time." He was only "mentally unstable" towards the very end of his life. Virtually everything he wrote he wrote before that period, when he was as sane as anyone else. In any event, even if he was as mad as a hatter his whole life (which he wasn't), that would not necessarily mean that what he wrote was worthless. What a person writes should be judged on its own merits, not on those of its author.