The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.