“If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.”
“Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.”
“I look at every book as a self-help book.”
“Fiction is the best the self-help book.”
“I don't know if tea really helps when one feels precarious, but it does give one something warm to hold on to. A kitten would work just as well, but we don't have one at the moment. They will grow into cats.”
“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”