I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.