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.

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

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

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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