In Folly's opinion then, the more variety there is to a man's madness the happier he is.

Foucault had lots to say about madness.

"There is always some madness in love. Bit there is also always some reason in madness." - Nietzsche

Rousseau - "Passionately in need of love, Rousseau was torn between a desperate quest for independence and an equally desperate search for someone who would accept his dependence. It was not surprising that this internal conflict ended in madness". - Boorstin

Rousseau's "Confessions"... marks a new era in literature, with a new form for the writers candor. And thiis first full-blown modern revelation of the self was written by a madman. - Boorstin

"(Kafka's) last eight years were spent in hospitals and sanitoriums". - Boorstin

"Despite her lively sense of humor, Virgina's (Woolf) life was one long bout with 'madness', a vague, emotion laden label then attached to all sorts of mental illnesses, especially those of women". - Boorstin

"I am simply missing, which was Foucault's spendid definition of madness". - Althusser