Reality can easily become the current fantasy..

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy..

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ign….

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It….

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have..

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no pr….

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate….

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out..

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice..

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.….

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being ….

What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born beca….

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of ….

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit a….

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found..