“Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.”

“To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.”

“The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause.”

“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”

“[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.”

“We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.”