The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.