Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.