The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138)

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.