I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

People don't need a reason to make a bad decision

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.

You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while