We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.