Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

The only sin is the sin of being born.