Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.