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

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

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.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

The way out is through the door you came in.

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

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.