The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

I know I'm delicious. Nummy.....nummy.-Vlad

The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively... well where is the happiness?

STORIES" it should not be the perfect, not be untold, not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is??

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.