Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.

It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'