It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.