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

“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.”

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

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

“And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.”

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”

“I think I am mad sometimes.”

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