What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

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

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

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

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.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

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