Law is error, you see. It’s an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...

Instead of succumbing to the norm and being the same as everyone else, I’d rather be myself

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing them to conform to arbitrary definitions of ‘normality’. This charge is in fact...

A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it’s heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of...

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The...

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we’re on auto-pilot and don’t even realize we’re following a course of action that we haven’t consciously...

The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also explains why we fail to see the absurdities of the system. Consider, for instance, advertising campaigns in which a pig...