Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride. You will be left much sadder but not a lot wiser, and for a long time you will wonder what happened and what you did wrong. And if another of his kind comes knocking on your door, will you open it?

-From an essay signed "A psychopath in prison

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.