I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings. . . the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art. . . So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense. . . madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.