“The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.”

“Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter
I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice”

“In writing a history of madness, Foucault has attempted-and this is the greatest merit, but also the very infeasibility of his book0to write a history of madness itself. Itself. Of madness itself. That is by letting madness speak for itself.”

“Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?”

“I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry I write is the kind that emphasises the physical qualities of the words.”

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”

“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.”