Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]