“It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”

“It's the movies that have been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.”

“If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.”

“[…][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

“The problem isn't how you feel, it's that you don't feel SAFE to feel how you feel.”

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

“If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that’s success. You define that as success, then that’s success. Success is not a general thing. It’s a personal thing. It’s a personal attribute.”