"There has got to be a better way to run my railroad."
"I am convinced that what gets us in here is that total aloneness."
"There has got to be a better way to run my railroad."
"I am convinced that what gets us in here is that total aloneness."
"Where could I hide", I said, "so I could never find myself?"
"I know. I could pretend that I'm not me or you nor he."
"I'll hide in a story and believe that it's real."
"Oh boy! What a joke on me."
"I violated every single principle that had been given to me."
"I hadn't had a new problem in a long time. If you stop and think about it there are no new problems, just variations of old themes."
"Here's my card - call me up when you feel worse... A week later I called him up."
"We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people ..."
"But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. Either we insist upon dominating the people we know, or we depend upon them far too much."
"I create chaos out there because I want the chaos out there to match the chaos in here because I can't keep this in here quiet."
"Not too many men like an angry prostitute but they are out there."
"And I found that, you know, I would go to a party and I'd drink too much and pass out and I didn't even think about it. I didn't even think what was happening to my life, what was happening in my family, how my kids were getting out of hand - never dawned on me."