I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. – Alice Miller
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor ones parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. – Alice Miller
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. – Alice Miller
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders