Keith Ablow Quotes
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)
Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.
When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.