There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.