Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense.

Don't try fixing something that is already broken to begin with.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.