I have frequently thought to myself, ‘If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.’ Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I...

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously....

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

If I am darkness, then I have learned it backwards. Darkness must be in the right, and you my dear, along with nearly all others, have been blindly wandering within the light of the wrong.

The beagles are partying under Geiger’s desk.

For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had...

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

Do I need to fire the little prat yet?” Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch.

Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek! You could be Alex SQUARED!

Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? – Ciel Phantomhive

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere...

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

Heads swivel. Whispers erupt. As Kalist returns to his desk, bone cane by his side, he indulges, briefly, in horse practice, neighing lightly as he scrolls through a few mental images of busty secretary, Geiger,...

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn’t be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change we develop new habits and eccentricities;...

The distinction between diseases of “brain” and “mind,” between “neurological” problems and “psychological” or “psychiatric” ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between...

Obelmäker is eating at his desk, a habit both Baumauer and Pissec find repulsive.

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians.

Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. – Sebastian Michaelis

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays,...

Apparently, we’re all in the frame,” I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead – as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and...

Bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, naked bride of Beimerstetten,” and he imagines a procession of proud military men blowing trumpets as they stomp through a bomb-devastated town to the tune of...

Excerpt from my lecture Sunday February 22, 2015 at Soul-Esteem Center10 Commandments – God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free...

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

God gifted a Zoo; with a paralyzed care taker.

SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATIONThe patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable traumas in order to survive that which could easily lead...

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

Kalist is in his office with the door shut, secretly adding the final touches to his new Brichacek doll; she’s got rosy, plaster cheeks and his nose hairs for pubes, although he thinks he might...

SWAT? For me?” Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under my nose.”Tactical Support was busy. You got Dennis and Arlo,” said Harry, speed-reading...

The problem with happiness is that it’s a difficult thing to detect. It’s discreet and serene by definition. Just when you think you’ve found it, it’s likely just a spark of euphoria, as quick and...

Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men.

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

The click of the seat belt securing into the buckle is the only sound to break the awkward silence. I feel his warm breath on my neck as he reaches and I take a deep...

Where does she get all the energy? Where does he get all the energy? Nobody GET’s energy. Everybody releases energy.

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus…

Shame comes in different doses.

Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive.

Beauvoir was quiet, watching the Chief, taking in the gleam in his eye, the enthusiasm as he described what he’d found. Not the physical landscape, but the emotional. The intellectual.Many might have thought the Chief...

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

Obelmäker always suspected Kalist of being a driven man with a determined selfishness that verged on sociopathic, but he actually appears to be suffering for once, in a humane way, like one who has been...

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...