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.

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

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

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.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

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