What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure.

We can finally start translating the book, " Cate said. "At least, I think we

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

I'm impatient sometimes.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are ‘in good taste.’ Either you understand it or not.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.