“Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.”

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

We’re like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you’ll never use us again.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

We will find a way or we shall make one

All good things to those who wait.

Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view… agenda.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

I was curious what would happen.

Your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe.

Dogs keep a promise a person can’t.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

If we cannot find a way, we will make one.

Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it’s not such an isolating experience.

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.

It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.