"Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever."
The Joker

Where does madness leave off and reality begin?

Madness is somewhere between chaos and having a dream.

Too much sanity is madness. The greatest madness of all is to see the world as it is, and not as it should be.

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

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?

1/7 of your life should be madness

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

So, am I a madman or a joker? Or simply a scribbler?

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?