It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

Let it rain to You and drips on me, together we will get wet

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward.