People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.
When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.
You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.
Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your planning your own vacations as you see fit, then let them. Bowing to unreasonable demands because someone will make you pay emotionally if you don't is not a healthy option.
People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what's mine and what's other people's is controlled by me. It isn't even fair to talk about.
People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.