Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.