Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

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)

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

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.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.