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

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

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.