They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

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 read a book through merely because you have begun it.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

I don't want no problems. I don't want to know problems.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.