Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

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

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

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.