Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.