The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

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