Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.