People often equate divorce with failure. No one wants to admit to failure, but sometimes it is inevitable. The alternative is a far worse option.

We’re animals, primates to be precise, ” I pointed out. “Games are role playing from our hunter gatherer days.”“That's nothing to be proud of, ” he said, in a fair imitation of Papa's manner.

It is wonderful to dance with the moon under the twinkling starlight!

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.