Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

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

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

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.