Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.