Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

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.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.