Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

Scholarship is polite argument.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?