“There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)”

“The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.”

“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”

“Everyone - rich or poor, black or white, educated or not - is in emotional turmoil, in some sort of pain. (51)”

“It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from a mother or father who cannot provide it is seemingly unquenchable. I have treated sixty- and seventy-year-old business executives, politicians, and physicians still desperate for approval from shriveled, emotionally barren men and women in their eighties and nineties. (257)”

“Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)”

“Deep down, everyone wants the truth.”