"Very shortly, you will be going onto your assigned wards. Within those wards, you will see over fifty of the sickest,…"

"We have three choices in life: to kill ourselves, go crazy, or learn to live with what we have in life."

"Never idealize anybody: They all stink."

"Sorrow is the vitamin of growth."

"When you feel loved, you don't have to be crazy."

"You have to respect his [the patient's] adulthood. To do this you have to treat him with respect and approach him on …"

"Therapy is therapy-- talking to the patient about what matters to him, no matter at what pace he can take it... As lo…"

"My main interest is to kibbitz and learn."

"At his approach, it is told, the beside-themselves would find themselves, and the nonsense-talkers would begin to mak…"

"[Semrad was] a rumpled, roly-poly Father Christmas. It was like talking to your grandfather-- who is finally listenin…"