“I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.”

“Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression an...”

“I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.”

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

“I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.”

“Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.”

“External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into a hidden inner world; the patient's conscious ego...”

“Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duti...”

“A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this worldjailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..”

“If the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybodys's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties.”

“Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.”

“Love me love my dog.”

“It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”