Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.