For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Often things are as bad as they seem.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.