I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

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.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals