We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.