“We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.”

“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.”

“We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.”

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”