How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

Teachers today can't take to a child.