“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.”

“Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!”

“Nice concept.-What is?-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.”

“a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.”

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”

“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)”

“Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology.”