How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.