"I think to a certain degree you have to deaden your ability to feel and perceive. In order to function you have to cut out at least one part of your mind. Otherwise, you’d be chronically sane in a society which is chronically insane. I mean, look at Artaud. That’s your choice: Go mad and die, or function but be insane"

- Sarah Kane, qtd. In Saunders, Love Me or Kill Me (2002), 114