Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.