Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

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

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

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 are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

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

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.