People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

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

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.