"Maybe madness is the excess of possibility...and writing is about reducing possibility to one idea, one book, one sentence, one word. Madness is a form of self-expression. It is the opposite of creativity. You cannot make anything that can be separated from yourself if you are mad...my language was my protection, my guarantee against madness and when there was no one to listen my language vanished along with my reader."
from Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker