What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.