When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.