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.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

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

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

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.