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

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

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.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.