He always tried to be different, even when it didn't matter. It was as if he acted instead of living.

Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which...

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are 'mentioned'. There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an...

So – as animal experiments have suggested – oxytocin does not affect reciprocity, just the tendency to take a social risk, to go out on a limb.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

Ornon says, Ornon - who - always - has - something - to - say says, the Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. That's what makes us dangerous. -...

DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...

Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick...

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Seeking advice is a subtle way to invite someone to make a commitment to us.

In fact, many features of hypomania — such as outgoingness, increased energy, intensified sexuality, increased risk-taking, persuasiveness, self-confidence, and heightened productivity — have been...

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear - blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear...

If a gift, favor, or service incorporates all three features of meaningfulness, unexpectedness, and customization, it can become a formidable source of change.

You cannot reason someone into believing something they haven't reasoned about themselves.

I'd learned long ago you had to block out the rush of regrets that followed the adrenaline dip after a fight. Otherwise the loop of thoughts could pull you under. Did you just kill someone? Or was it...

He exhaled the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I inhaled it, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his...

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

It's seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn't what you want it to be.

There is only one form of approaching that does not prevent individual development, does not cause friction or a lack of energy — it is mature love. I mean a complete intimate relationship between...

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed...

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a...