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

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.