Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

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

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.