“If you label it this, then it can't be that.”
“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
“Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?”
“Once you label me you negate me.”