Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.