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.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.