True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

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

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

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.

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