I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.