As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Ask the next question.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.