The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

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.

If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.