The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.