"Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" — or physical object — and hence it can "exist" only in the sam…"

"Our adversaries are not demons, witches, fate, or mental illness. We have no enemy whom we can fight, exorcise, or di…"

"In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients."

"Religious and medical propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, I hold some simple truths to be self-evident. One o…"

"For millennia, the dialectic of vilification and deification and, more generally, of invalidation and validation&mdas…"

"What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery."

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults …"

"Judges and prosecutors, lawyers and psychiatrists, all protest their passionate desire to know why a person accused o…"