R. D. Laing

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.