How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.