Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.