“Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of using phrases such as "housing the homeless" and "treating the mentally ill" as if we knew what counts as housing a homeless person or what it means to treat mental illness. But we do not. We have deceived ourselves that having a home and being mentally healthy are our natural conditions, and that we become homeless or mentally ill as a result of "losing" our homes or our minds. The opposite is the case. We are born without a home and without reason, and have to exert ourselves and are fortunate if we succeed in building a secure home and a sound mind.”

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget. ”

“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

“He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.”

“The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

“The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.”

“If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.”

“If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.”