Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)