“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just… well,, that's all.”
Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair
Source: The Eyre Affair
Mellow Yellow (1966)
“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just… well,, that's all.”
Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair
Source: The Eyre Affair
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Mad About the Boy (1932)
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Mad About the Boy (1932)
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)
Maxime Bernier (1963) Canadian politician
3 October 2016 Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/hon.maximebernier/posts/10154565323228703 quoted 28 May 2018 on Toronto Sun https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/bonokoski-mad-maxs-dustup-over-a-liberal-mps-skin-colour-comments <br class="br">About
“I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.”
Thierry Henry (1977) French association football player
Attributed
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Mad About the Boy (1932)
“The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Preface to 1961 edition
History of Madness (1961)
Context: The constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.