Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

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.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

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.

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.