The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Few books today are forgivable.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.