“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”

“I think I am mad sometimes.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.”

Robert Walser (1878–1956) Swiss writer

“They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.”

Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) English dramatist

“I am not mad because I'm a woman… I'm mad because you're an asshole.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

“I am individual, stylish, mad and a lot of fun to be with.”

Deepak Perwani (1973) Pakistani fashion designer

“mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

“TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

Edgar Allan Poe book The Tell-Tale Heart