Quote of the Day

(Friedrich von Schiller's) sufferings at the hands of his frightening, power-crazed father drove him to write.  But he could not recognize the motivation behind that urge.  His sole aim was to produce great and lasting literature.  He sought to express the truth he found embodied in historical figures, and he achieved that aim with outstanding success.  But the whole truth about the way he suffered at the hands of his father finds no mention.  This suffering remained a closed book to him, all the way up to his early death.

-- Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies, p. 52