There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

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.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

We all get old together/And we all get old forever.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.