Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

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

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

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.