There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

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.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

So when do we get to the junk-kicking?

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.