Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.