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.

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

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

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.

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

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