It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.