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

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to die. In the meantime, he has a body that roots him to this time and this place.

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.

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.