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"Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their coura..."

"Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together."

"Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again."

"One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace."

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or ..."

"A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illn..."

"A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change in behavior as such, but in how behavior is defined. Deviant behaviors that were once defined..."

"The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination."