The Normal is the good smile in a childs eyes - all right. It is also — 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."

"What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal."

"Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do."

"Theres no such thing as a normal child."

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

"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."