From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

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.

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

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

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

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.

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