The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.