Americas present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but n — Normality

"I wouldnt say Im normal, but Im relatively stable. When I think of normalcy I think of mediocrity and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me."

"If, as psychologists, we follow the analogy of the other biological sciences, we must expect to find normalcy synonymous with maximal efficiency of function. Survival of the fittest means survival of those members of a species whose organisms most successfully resist the encroachments of environmental antagonists, and continue to function with the greatest internal harmony. In the field of emotions, then, why would we alter this expectation? Why should we seek the spectacularly disharmonious emotions, the feelings that reveal a crushing of ourselves by environment, and consider these affective responses as our normal emotions?"

"Theres no such thing as a normal child."

"The note I wanted; that of the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."