Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.