"The mad state is, as [Artaud] emphasizes over and over again, empty. Teeming with emptiness. Knotted on emptiness. Immodest in its emptiness. You can pull emptiness out of it by the handful. 'I am not here. I am not here and never will be.' You can pull it out endlessly."
Anne Carson, quoted by Hedva (132)
"For Artaud the real drawback of being mad is not that consciousness is crushed and torn but that he cannot say so, fascinating as this would be, while it is happening. But only later when somewhat 'recovered' and so much less convincingly."
Anne Carson, quoted by Hedva (132-3)