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.

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

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

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