...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

Nervousness kill us... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.

I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] is as steeped and deep inside the establishment as anybody in this campaign.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.