We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.