The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

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.

Two things you should never do in a hurry: make up and revenge.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness