It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.