It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.