One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

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.

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

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)