“Because people’s desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.”

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don’t accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios

I wanted money without the job.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.

Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..

We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.