The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)