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.

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

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

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

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

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.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.