Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.