We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

I think I'll move to Australia.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.