Thomas Lewis

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

—Marcel Proust

A child with emotionally hazy parents finds trying to know himself like wandering around a museum in the dark: almost anything could exist within its walls. He cannot ever be sure of what he senses.

People who trust a little can gamble and learn to trust more; people who have no faith from which to leap are out of luck. Mental health is a substance that attracts itself as readily as money or power: the more you have, the more you can get.