If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.