Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.