I am one who knows what to remember and what to forget about who I am.


I am a healthy schizophrenic, a commentator, a go-between, a present-day descendant of a baker’s dozen (Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hegel, Emerson, Darwin, Nietzsche, Stein, Jung, London, Picasso, Joyce, Orwell, and Levi-Strauss), who sees a little better and farther, a bit deeper and more truthfully, than others.


I am one who attains a state of self-understanding and oneness.


I am able to transcend my own psychic and social conflicts in such a manner as to offer many troubled, fragmented, and alienated human beings effective guidance in the choice of appropriate values and personal adjustment and organization. My reflections, because they are above the plane of day-to-day achievement, acquire an unusual, impersonal, and abstract character that endows them with a rich significance for myriads of people exhibiting a variety of moods, dispositions, and personality problems.


A healthy schizophrenic shows you how to truly belong to yourself.


There is nothing more difficult than to shepherd in a new way of looking at things.


My thoughts are perfectly suited for all the men and women in a hurry who wish to know the latest about themselves, but they want—indeed they are forced—to learn on the run, picking up their self-knowledge in neat, small packages.


In place of the traditional depiction of ideas in a linear, logical format, I substitute something comparable to a collage: an assemblage of diverse reflections in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition, mutually illuminating, like the spatial elements in a painting.


I employ a cyclical view of time instead of a sequential one.


To furnish the means of acquiring self-understanding and oneness is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon the world. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.