The strangest thing about humans is the way  they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone.  They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come togther only to reproduce ( Read more... )

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely.  But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.  Food only looks good to a hungry man.

"You just don't want to get your hopes up.  You just don't want to admit that there's a chance that you might live, because then you'd start to fear death ( Read more... )

[She] probably knew this, intellectually. But like all other human beings, she did not always act according to her understanding. She had lost too many of the people that she loved; when she felt one more of them slipping away, her response was visceral, not intellectual. [He] had come into her life as a healer, a protector. It was his job to ( Read more... )

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I don't know anybody, and nobody knows me. We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand". Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.
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And after all the talking they would be no closer to solving any of the problems...Because the solution to their problems now did not depend on talk. It depended on knowledge and action - knowledge that only other people could learn, actions that only other people could perform.
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