The fight for justice against CORRUPTION is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our SELF, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well WORTH HOLDING on to our dignity.

Our brains have been DESIGNED to blur the line between self and other. It is an ANCIENT neural circuitry that marks EVERY mammal, from MOUSE to elephant.

On some LEVEL, I think we WANT our READING self to REPRESENT our best self.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting STUPIDITY and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a FIGHT to the bitter END, one in which I was not defending IDEALS or beliefs but SIMPLY my own self.

I've ALWAYS preferred writing about GREY CHARACTERS and human characters. WHETHER they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human HEART is still in conflict with the self.

One may understand the cosmos, but NEVER the ego; the self is more distant than any STAR.

The promises of this WORLD are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's SELF, and become something of worth and VALUE is the best and safest COURSE.

If PEOPLE could understand how much PLEASURE they could have by themselves, I THINK everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really NEED a dose of quality time with one's self.

If you skew the endocrine SYSTEM, you lose the pathways to SELF. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the PATTERN tends to TRIP ANOTHER.

A WORLD VIEW is probably an EXPRESSION of SELF.

I do not CONSIDER my SELF as having MASTERED the flute, but I GET a real KICK out of trying.

Novelists are in the BUSINESS of constructing consciousness out of WORDS, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a STORY we tell.

A self does not amount to MUCH, but no self is an island; each EXISTS in a fabric of relations that is now more COMPLEX and MOBILE than ever before.

When I am wrong, I will LEARN the LESSON and move on to FACE other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your BEST work while being your best self.