Gay Talese Quotes

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

This abuse cannot be a lifelong diet without a price. It gets in your craw…. These things cannot accumulate without some anger.

Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

Sometimes it's been difficult to stay positive, especially after the injuries that I've had, which have been frustrating.

I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children from their families and inflict terrible suffering, than to process their own trauma and pain.

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.