In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.
Doris LessingI'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
Doris LessingYou simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
Doris Lessing