I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

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

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.

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.